National Review, December 19th, 2005
ALLAN BLOOM
Opening the American Mind
'SO, what do you think about Me?" asked Allan Bloom, audibly capitalizing the personal pronoun and laughing like a big delighted child at the hornet's nest of trouble he'd stirred up. Since the publication of The Closing of the American Mind (1987) his name had been on everyone's lips, and whether they had read it or not--and most people hadn't--everyone was expected to have an opinion about it.
I was a graduate student at Columbia in 1987, but I had spent the previous year at Chicago, where I took courses with Bloom on Plato, Machiavelli, and Roussea...
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