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Taped on April 15, 1987.
Mr. Bloom’s surprise best-seller was gathering kudos and brickbats around the country; the only disappointment here is that he proves to be not always as focused viva voce as he is on the page. Still, an interesting and often moving look at the sad state of the American academy. Bloom: “Since I was in a university, since I began in 1946, the universities were instruments of egalitarianism. It was there that the civil-rights movement was genera… More >>
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Higher Education Has Failed Democracy”