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Back to EpisodesAllan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind with Mark Hlavacik
Published 2 months, 2 weeks ago
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Explaining the show's new art and how Mick Jagger "failed democracy and impoverished the souls" of students before 1987.
References and suggested readings:
- God and Man at Yale episode with Sam Tanenhaus
- Why white nationalists love Plato episode with Curtis Dozier
- Allan Bloom. The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students.
- George Lowery. April 16, 2009. A campus takeover that symbolized an era of change. Cornell Chronicle.
- Lauren Lassabe Shepherd. March 21, 2025. Attack on the Faculties. The Carryall.
- Michelle Alexander. 2020. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Press.
- Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein. 2024. They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. W. W. Norton.
- Saul Bellow. Ravelstein.
- Mark Hlavacik. 2025. Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars. University of Chicago Press.
- Mark Hlavacik. 2016. Assigning Blame: The Rhetoric of Education Reform. Harvard University Press.
- Mark Hlavacik’s faculty page.
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