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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Jun 2021

    1. Curious to remember that one of the igniting sparks of the on-going culture wars was Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind (1987), which sold more than a million copies, was touted by the likes of Jerry Falwell for celebrating traditional values & did nothing of the sortpic.twitter.com/V5EarRnR91

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Jun 2021

        2. Both Bloom's friends (evangelical Christians loved the book) & foes (much of the academic left) mistook it for a traditionalist lament. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, former Bloom student, was among the few who recognized it as a closeted gay man's defense of his special identity.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Jun 2021

        3. At the end of Pride month, some thoughts on Allan Bloom as political philosopher of the closet.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-allan-bloom-and-the-conservative?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …

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      1. vincent kang‏ @vincentkangnow 27 Jun 2021
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        Judging (and touting) a book by its cover. Wonder how many people who bought it actually read it.

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      2. RonMwangaguhung‏ @RonMwangaguhung 27 Jun 2021
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        How many evangelicals -- or conservatives, for that matter -- actually read the entirety of The Closing of the American Mind and the supporting texts that buttressed Bloom's argument?

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      3. Tonio Loewald‏ @podperson 27 Jun 2021
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        Evangelicals have typically not even read the bible.

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      1. Impeach Clarence Thomas‏ @reftpt 27 Jun 2021
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        Having lived through that era it ABSOLUTELY was.

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      2. Hephaestus‏ @AmeriHephaestus 27 Jun 2021
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        The most interesting thing about that book being published is that Bloom was financed by the Olin foundation. It was straight up right wing propaganda but it was treated by msm as serious intellectual inquiry.

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      3. Gross old man on Plentyoffish‏ @johnsonpenelope 27 Jun 2021
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        Iniquitoushttps://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/09/18/closing-american-mind-20-years-later …

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      2. Dial B for Baller‏ @monadicjordan 27 Jun 2021
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        Interesting listen, but ‘did nothing of the sort’ is incorrect Sedgwick’s thesis is not that the book was purely an expression of closeted sexuality Or by “traditional values” do you mean those claimed by people like Falwell?

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Jun 2021
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        Yes, I mean that Bloom's ideal (the Platonic philosophical life) was not at all Falwell's.

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