The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom (published 1987), describes "how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students."
The book's lengthy introduction delineates two kinds of "openness". Bloom criticizes the openness of cultural relativism, in which he claims:
- "the point is not to correct the mistakes and really be right; rather it is not to think you are right at all."
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- favorable review in three parts
- lukewarm review