In the summer of 1987, a relatively unknown University of Chicago political science professor and philosopher named Allan Bloom published an academic book entitled The Closing of the American Mind ...

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Adam Bellow and Mark Bauerlein, editors of [The State of the American Mind: 16 Leading Critics on the New Anti-Intellectualism], talked about their follow-up to Allan Bloom's 1987 book, [The ...

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Book Review. Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future. By Jason Stanley Atria/One Signal: 256 pages, $28.99 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a ...

A century ago, in his classic book Public Opinion, the journalist Walter Lippmann laid out a bleak argument: One of the threats to the American experiment was American democracy itself.

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Two new books, 'On Freedom' and 'Erasing History,' trace why the U.S. is susceptible to fascist appeals from politicians like Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis.