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What’s the future of the family in America? How will that change our government?
Summary: As the dust from the election settles, let’s not forget the powerful elements of the conservative critique of 21st C America. Here we look at one of the many forces driving the expansi… more →
Fabius Maximus
Allan Bloom discusses Plato's Apology of Socrates by Allan Bloom
wrote 6 days ago: Allan Bloom on Plato’s Apology of Socrates 1 by Allan Bloom 15,523 views 10:01 2 Allan Bloom o … more →
IBM Japan mid-February update: Thursday in White Plains.
wrote 3 months ago: In the slow-moving civil case, I was up in U.S. District Court for the Southern District this past T … more →
Value of Pulp
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wrote 3 months ago: “Lack of education simply results in students’ seeking for enlightenment wherever it is readily avai … more →
What is the university in an age of social media?
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wrote 3 months ago: English: Education of the Virgin, attributed to D. Velázquez (Yale University Museum) (Photo credit: … more →
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wrote 3 months ago: This past summer, my brother showed me this motivational YouTube video: Like most high school sophom … more →
Spirit as student
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wrote 3 months ago: If critics of the American education system lament its focus on and restriction to ration and reason … more →
A Year of Reading
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wrote 4 months ago: Oh my! It’s been almost a year since I’ve done a book entry. I guess that would indicate … more →
Are Books from the Past Better than Today’s Pop Culture?
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wrote 4 months ago: In my last post, I mentioned Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind and raised the que … more →
Neoconservatives vs. paleoconservatives
wrote 4 months ago: From reading the title of this post, you may wonder if you traveled back in time to 2003, 2005, or a … more →
Do the Great Books Help Us Escape from the Cave of Popular Culture?
wrote 4 months ago: I see reading and discussing the Great Books primarily as an end in itself, not something that I jus … more →
Not Rights But Power
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wrote 5 months ago: I recently began reading Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind (1987), a modern classic of … more →
The Closing of the American Mind - Allan Bloom
wrote 5 months ago: Since its publication the most prestigious universities in America have seen a continual and ever mo … more →
What's the future of the family in America? How will that change our government?
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wrote 6 months ago: Summary: As the dust from the election settles, let’s not forget the powerful elements of the … more →
Crossing over: Allan Bloom, Saul Bellow, and Christopher Hitchens.
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wrote 6 months ago: Recently, over breakfast, my girlfriend and I chatted about some of the TV programs that she, having … more →
Minding the Campus: Reforming Our Universities
wrote 6 months ago: Universities MINDING THE CAMPUS: REFORMING THE UNIVERSITIES This is an interesting website, although … more →
Deneen on Bloom, Conservatism, and Multiculturalism
wrote 7 months ago: What does it mean for schools to embrace “multiculturalism?” One of the sternest and mos … more →
The Dangers of Not Reading
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wrote 8 months ago: Thus, the failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tenden … more →
My Grace is Sufficient...Even For This
wrote 8 months ago: “Love never fails” “Children may be told over and over again that their parents ha … more →
What is Truth?
wrote 8 months ago: “What is truth?” Many different constructions have been placed on Pilate’s searchi … more →
