Closing of the American Mind

This book is a critique of American culture that delves into a larger intellectual crisis. The social and political crises in America are a result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by university elites, according to the author. This bestselling book hits with the approximate force of electroshock therapy and has become even more urgent today. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition includes a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson, explaining why the book caused such a furor at publication, and why our culture still resists its truths.