13. The scandal of Allan Bloom was that although he was closeted, there were enough rumors to compromise the whole enterprise.
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14. Consider the fractured friendship between Allan Bloom and Harry Jaffa.
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15. Bloom and Jaffa collaborated on a book called Shakespeare's Politics, dedicated "to our teacher Leo Strauss"
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16. Bloom and Jaffa had a falling out circa 1970s. Jaffa started writing essays denouncing Bloom for not being anti-sodomy.
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17. Jaffa was (is!) a homophobe but a complicated one.
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18. Read Jaffa's long dedication to his book Condition of Freedom (1975)
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19. In dedication Jaffa describes intense friendship he had with student (they biked together & talked about the Greeks) who died in Vietnam
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20. To repeat: the homosocial overlaps with the homoerotic. Not all desires are acted on.
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21. Indeed for someone like Jaffa it could be that Bloom debased Platonic love by acting on it. The truest love is just wistful sighing.
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