The Evil Philosophy Behind Political Correctness
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University of Chicago Professor Allan Bloom died in October 1992, at the age of 62. A translator of Plato and Rousseau, and a long-time college educator, Bloom became widely known for his 1987 book, The Closing of the American Mind.
Closing touched a nerve. At the time of its publication, it had become clear that the worst lunacies of the drug-rock-sex ``counterculture'' of the late 1960s had, over the subsequent 20 years, never abated on the nation's campuses; in fact, many of the leaders of that counterculture--now equipped with Ph. D. s--had become the dominant minority in college faculties and administrations. This minority was consciously training their students to be a thought police enforcing ``political correctness,'' ready to denounce and punish any student or instructor deemed guilty of racism, sexism, insufficient sensitivity to the homosexual ``lifestyle,'' or too high an appreciation of Western Judeo-Christian culture. ...(more)
