This year is the twentieth anniversary of Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind. I give my take today in Closing, Still Open. For a couple of responses to Bloom that are in some ways the “opposite” of mine, have a look at the very thoughtful pieces by Peter Augustine Lawler and Wilfred McClay in this special symposium in The Intercollegiate Review, which commemorates the twentieth anniversary of Bloom’s spectacular public success.