Is The Closing of the American Mind (1987) CHUD or WOKE?
chudrank score: 17 / 100 (CHUD-leaning (right-wing)). 0 is CHUD (right-wing), 100 is WOKE (left-wing).
Book by Allan David Bloom, 1987.
22 votes: 18% WOKE, 82% CHUD.
Why: Critique of relativism and university culture
The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis. Allan Bloom's sweeping analysis is essential to understanding America today. It has fired the imagination of a public ripe for change. - Back cover.