abstract:The Closing of the American Mind is a 1987 book by Allan Bloom. It describes "how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students.
Bloom ended up at the University of Chicago and in 1987 published "The ClosingoftheAmericanMind, " his best-selling attack on the shortcomings of higher education.
Allan Bloom, in the"Closing TheAmericanMind, " said that we can no longer conceive of evil because the only word we have for evil is Hitler, and that's become much ofthe political discourse.