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The Closing of the American Mind

Allan Bloom

A critique of the intellectual and moral confusions of this age argues that the social/political crisis of twentieth-century America is actually an intellectual crisis, and shows how American democracy has hosted ideas of nihilism, despair, and relativism disguised as tolerance

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The Bulwark Podcast

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The Bulwark Podcast

This book was cited as an example of serious intellectual arguments that were once central to the Republican party when the speaker and guest were younger.

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Alan Bloom at the closing of the American mine, losing ground and welfare reform, Richard John Newhouse in the naked public square, Scalia and the Federalist Society.

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This book was cited as an example of serious intellectual arguments that were once central to the Republican party when the speaker and guest were younger.

"

Alan Bloom at the closing of the American mine, losing ground and welfare reform, Richard John Newhouse in the naked public square, Scalia and the Federalist Society.

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