http://www.metafilter.com/tags/AllanBloom Posts tagged with 'AllanBloom' at MetaFilter. Fri, 01 Oct 2004 23:41:30 -0800 Fri, 01 Oct 2004 23:41:30 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/35985/Entertainment%2DU Easy grades, light reading loads, and above all a professor you can enjoy. Today’s university culture is one of <a href="http://www.pw.org/mag/teachersguide/indexloun.html">all entertainment all the time..</a> an essay by Mark Edmunson based on his new book <b>Why Read?</b> about the the "crisis in the humanities", called the most provocative look since Allan Bloom's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Closing_of_the_American_Mind">The Closing of the American Mind</a>. (via Arts and Letters Daily) tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.35985 Fri, 01 Oct 2004 23:41:30 -0800 AllanBloom infotainment lectures lecturing MarkEdmunson pedagogy professors teaching universities WhyRead stbalbach