Elitism, campus politics and the ghost of Allan Bloom. by This Is Hell! published on 2018-04-24T18:52:01Z Journalist Jacob Hamburger re-examines Allan Bloom's writing 30 years after The Closing of the American Mind - as campus politics and elitism are re-contested in American culture, conservatives and centrists alike are returning to Bloom's reactionary arguments in their attacks on today's left. Jacob wrote the article "The Closing of the American Mind" for The Point magazine. Genre News & Politics