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S12 E1: Foreword, Preface, and Introduction to "The Closing of the American Mind"

S12 E1: Foreword, Preface, and Introduction to "The Closing of the American Mind"

Update: 2025-06-17
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What is the purpose of education? What is the truth? What is man? Find out in this season of Unlimited Opinions, as we read Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students. In this episode, we discuss Saul Bellow's Foreword, as well as Bloom's Preface and Introduction, as the authors lay out the "new virtues" of relativism, openness, and freedom as the basis of our failing education system.

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S12 E1: Foreword, Preface, and Introduction to "The Closing of the American Mind"

S12 E1: Foreword, Preface, and Introduction to "The Closing of the American Mind"

Mark & Adam Bishop