![]() ![]() And not a few dancing bears stalk its pages. It didn't hurt that author Allan Bloom – egged on by University of Chicago colleague Saul Bellow who contributed the foreword – could turn a phrase, minting one of the more memorable descriptions of college leaders caving to bolshie student activists: "A few students discovered that pompous teachers who catechized them about academic freedom could, with a little shove, be made into dancing bears."īy design of its title and subject, The Coddling of the American Mind invites comparison with this near-namesake. Published in 1987, The Closing of the American Mind was a recondite jeremiad against cultural relativism and declining academic standards – not the material of your average blockbuster. There's a running thread –"campus craziness" – devoted to them on conservative TV channel Fox News and they were the subject of a cantankerous bestseller credited with fomenting the US culture wars. ![]() ![]() Affronting popular sensibilities at taxpayers' expense, Leftist excesses on campus reliably inflame middle America. ![]()
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