The State of the American Mind

Adam Bellow and Mark Bauerlein, editors of The State of the American Mind: 16 Leading Critics on the New Anti-Intellectualism, talked about … read more

Adam Bellow and Mark Bauerlein, editors of The State of the American Mind: 16 Leading Critics on the New Anti-Intellectualism, talked about their follow-up to Allan Bloom’s 1987 book, The Closing of the American Mind. They argued that the decline in American intellectual habits that Bloom wrote about has continued over the past three decades. close

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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
First Aired:
Jul 11, 2015 | 11:02pm EDT | C-SPAN 2
Last Aired:
Aug 16, 2015 | 2:30pm EDT | C-SPAN 2

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