Allan BloomAllan Bloom, 1930-1992, was a professor of social thought at the University of Chicago. He was the author of many books, including the number one bestseller The Closing of the American Mind.

Adam Kirsch is a poet and critic wose work appears regularly in the New York Review of Books, New Yorker, Tablet, and other publications. The author of several books of poetry, criticism, and biography, Kirsch lives in New York City. Read More Read Less