Allan Bloom and The Culture Wars

I found this interview with Allan Bloom, the author of The Closing of the American Mind to be very interesting. Bloom argues that modernism is not enough to make someone truly educated, and that universities should return to a focus on the classics. Even though Bloom's book was adopted by many conservatives of his time, Bloom claims that his book is not as politically divisive as many people make it out to be. I find it ironic that Bloom is very critical of the focus on the idea of values, as the word has been shaped by Nietzsche, as opposed to questions of good and evil. It seems like Bloom would disagree with many of the values focused

conservatives who supported him.