S12 E3: Books and Music

Update: 2025-07-01

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Do young people even read anymore? What's up with their obsession with music? Such questions are not as boring as they sound, as Allan Bloom describes in the next chapters of The Closing of the American Mind! Join us as we discuss the importance of literature and good music on the formation of the soul and the coherence of political society!

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S12 E3: Books and Music

Mark & Adam Bishop

S12 E3: Books and Music