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'''Allan Bloom''' . . .
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"Jewish and from a family of teachers, [[Paul Dundes Wolfowitz]] is for his part a brilliant product of East Coast universities. He has studied with two of the most eminent professors of the 1960s. '''Allan Bloom''', the discipline of the German-Jewish philosopher, [[Leo Strauss]], and [[Alfred Wohlstetter]], professor of mathematics and a specialist in military strategy. These two names would end up counting. The neoconservatives [[neoconservative]]s have placed themselves under the tutelary shadow of the strategist and the philosopher."[http://www.counterpunch.org/frachon06022003.html]
"Allan Bloom from the University of Chicago was depicted by his friend [[Saul Bellow]] in the novel ''Ravelstein'' (Which Books, 2000). In 1987 in ''The Closing of the American Mind'', Bloom assails the university community for having given everything equal merit: 'Everything has become culture', he wrote. 'Drug culture, Rock culture, Street Gang culture and so on without the least discrimination. The failure of culture has become culture.'