Jon Baskin and Anastasia Berg are humanists and co-editors of The Point. Today at The New York Times they join the chorus of thinkers and intellectuals concerned about the fate of the humanities in American life. They are optimistic: …the […]
Allan Bloom
“The Closing of the American Mind” at 30
Allan Bloom‘s bestseller, The Closing of the American Mind, turns thirty this year. Over at The Chronicle of Higher Education, cultural critic and New Left activist Todd Gitlin reflects: “You can slam its young people into universities with their classrooms and laboratories, and when...