Higher Education Circa 1987

Most of us who had graduated and were heading off to college in 1987 probably didn't know it at the time, but we were about to enter into an educational environment that was less about classical liberal education and more about liberal ideological indoctrination. Such was disclosed in the best selling book, The Closing of the American Mind, which was first published in 1987. The book was, and continues to be, the most significant indictment on so-called higher education in America, and the moral relativist culture which permeates it.

Here's a link to a review of the book by public policy and social commentator Roger Kimball that appeared in the New York Times in April 1987. It's a nice little introduction to the late Allan Bloom's work, which even today, is very much worth reading, if you already haven't done so.

Update: In case you aren't registered with the NY Times, here's a link to the cached version of the Kimball review.