Books, Arts & Manners: Sammler’s Complaint

The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom (Simon & Schuster, 392 pp., $18.95)

It’s fitting that the foreword to this book should be provided by Saul Bellow. As the subtitle—flow Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students—suggests, it might have been called Sammler’s Complaint. Allan Bloom thinks the American university has gone to hell, and he says so at a length that might be thought garrulous if he didn’t say it so well.

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The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom (Simon & Schuster, 392 pp., $18.95)

It’s fitting that the foreword to this book should be provided by Saul Bellow. As the subtitle—flow Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students—suggests, it might have been called Sammler’s Complaint. Allan Bloom thinks the American university has gone to hell, and he says so at a length that might be thought garrulous if he didn’t say it so well.