Just as I was lamenting the ripening fruits of the conclusions found in The Closing of the American Mind, written about in a best-selling book authored by the late Allan Bloom in 1987, along come two pieces on the Intellectual Dark Web:
The above references an opinion article by Bari Weiss of the NYT which can be found here:
The Audacity of Learning How to Think!
Underground or “dark” answers to withering institutions, totalitarianism, etc., have endured from time immemorial. As refreshing as they may be, they note soundly the inherent deficiencies in the above ground they are created to mirror.
More can be found about Allan Bloom’s prophetic book, albeit from Wikipedia, here:
The link to the Intellectual Dark Web can be found here:
Thought is Free, Tuition Isn’t
