Episode · The Rubin Report · 2024-05-13
Books mentioned on A Blueprint for How to Save Higher Education | Chris Rufo & Stephen Blackwood
Stephen Blackwood discussed America's Cultural Revolution by Christopher F. Rufo and Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom. Also mentioned: Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci by Antonio Gramsci.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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America's Cultural Revolution
Discussed“his best selling book America's cultural revolution how the radical left conquered everything how's that for a subtitle”
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Closing of the American Mind
Discussed“then you can look at the closing of American mind Alan bloom in 1985”
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci
Discussed“One of my favorite writers, Antonio Gramsci, has another metaphor that is probably more appropriate; not all of us are going to haul the ropes and live in a mountain; that’s kind of a weird thing to do. He talks about digging trenches, kind of World War I metaphor, and I think that's probably more appropriate.”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Ready Player One
“and if you've seen Ready Player one or plethora of science fiction movies there's a reason that in some respects the same people who are destroying the natural world are actually trying to usher in that world”