“ALLAN BLOOM’S GUIDE TO COLLEGE.” I did not expect the New Yorker to publish the sharpest thing I’ve read so far about the Closing of the American Mind anniversary!

For kids entering college fully trained in this liturgy of prudence and niceness, which I am anxiously imparting to my own young children, it’s not Bloom’s censoriousness they will resist. It’s his decadence.

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Also, this phrasing is just self-parodically Straussian: “I’m not a Straussian, but I was taught by Straussians and modelled my classroom methods on theirs….”