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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Jun 2021

    ICYMI: How one of the American right's top cultural warrior was personally and philosophically committed to 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. Smelodies‏ @SmelOdiesOG 27 Jun 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Bob Grant, highly influential right wing talk radio host in NYC in the ‘80s (and likely a big influence on Trump) used to rave about The Closing of the American Mind quite often.

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      1. Khaldoun Khelil  🇵🇸  🇩🇿 #freePalestine‏ @kkhelil 27 Jun 2021
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        I read so much Leo Strauss and ofc Bloom. So much damage done and only Strauss really seemed to believe in it all.

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      1. vincent kang‏ @vincentkangnow 27 Jun 2021
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        I liked the part about how a superior society exports its culture abroad as a sign of its superiority. That is another way of looking at the drive for the Iraq war and it makes a lot of sense seeing the domestic incentives to be for the war in order to demonstrate confidence.

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      1.  🇺🇸617to416 🇨🇦‏ @617to416 27 Jun 2021
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        My wife used to joke that his book was titled: The Closing of the American Mind: An Autobiography.

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      1. Khaldoun Khelil  🇵🇸  🇩🇿 #freePalestine‏ @kkhelil 27 Jun 2021
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        Strauss was the more interesting read bc of his belief in the hidden or esoteric meanings that philosophers would place between the lines of their work. Something he himself plied, though not subtly. Persecution and the Art of Writing is prlly the best of his work

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      2. Mike Follert‏ @mikefollert 27 Jun 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        should retitle episode 'the closeting of the american mind'!

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Jun 2021
        Replying to @mikefollert

        I wish I had thought of that!

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      1. King of the Divan‏ @hedcannon 28 Jun 2021
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        If the term “homophobe” refers to those who feel some level of contempt for homosexuality, what is the analogous term for those who feel contempt and suspicion toward those who feel contempt for people who persist in believing their homosexuality is deeply personal?

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