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From the Mid-Hudson Valley Perspective Archive

PROTECTING THE OPEN MIND

Commentary by The Washington Times

In his 1987 best-seller “The Closing of the American Mind,” the late Allan Bloom lamented “how higher education had failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today’s students.” It’s worse now, thanks in no small part to militant left-wing students who, not content to close their own minds, insist on the right to close the minds of others.

(Posted Monday, July 24, 2017 )   <Read it>

--Washington Times--