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\u201cALLAN BLOOM\u2019S GUIDE TO COLLEGE.\u201d<\/span> I did not expect the New Yorker<\/span> to publish the sharpest thing I\u2019ve read so far about the Closing of the American Mind<\/span> anniversary!<\/p>\n

For kids entering college fully trained in this liturgy of prudence and niceness, which I am anxiously imparting to my own young children, it\u2019s not Bloom\u2019s censoriousness they will resist. It\u2019s his decadence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Also, this phrasing is just self-parodically Straussian: \u201cI\u2019m not a Straussian, but I was taught by Straussians and modelled my classroom methods on theirs\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cALLAN BLOOM\u2019S GUIDE TO COLLEGE.\u201d I did not expect the New Yorker to publish the sharpest thing I\u2019ve 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\u2019s not Bloom\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nEve Tushnet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\""ALLAN BLOOM'S GUIDE TO COLLEGE." 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