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Every book Stephen Blackwood recommended on podcasts
Across 2 podcasts. Every show Stephen Blackwood appears on, in one place — not just one.
Stephen Blackwood appeared on The Rubin Report to discuss a blueprint for saving higher education alongside Chris Rufo. Stephen Blackwood introduced Christopher Rufo's bestselling book America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything, highlighting its subtitle and publication from the previous year. To illustrate that current problems in higher education are not new, Blackwood brought up William F. Buckley's God and Man at Yale as a foundational text criticizing higher education, noting it was written in the early 1950s. Expanding on the historical critique of universities, Blackwood also referenced Allan Bloom's 1985 book The Closing of the American Mind to discuss pre-existing diagnoses of institutional problems. Throughout the interview, Blackwood utilized these established texts to frame the long-standing conservative and traditionalist critiques of American academia, demonstrating how contemporary issues build upon decades of intellectual history and cultural commentary regarding the trajectory of higher education institutions in the United States.
Books recommended by Stephen Blackwood
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Closing of the American Mind
Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom is a sharply critical philosophical examination of modern higher education and the intellectual decay of contemporary Western culture.
Discussed“then you can look at the closing of American mind Alan bloom in 1985”
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God and Man at Yale
God and Man at Yale by William F.
Discussed“one of the earth Texs of criticizing higher education is is William F Buckley's God and man at Yale written the early early 1950s”
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America's Cultural Revolution
America's Cultural Revolution by Christopher F.
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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Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare widely regarded as his bloodiest and most violent play, telling the story of a Roman general's cycle of revenge with a Gothic empress.
Discussed“andrew doyle is doing a course on shakespeare's titus andronicus and so on”
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Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“the point i'm making is that you see the same thing in stephen pinker's work like the blank slate i'm sorry i hope i've got this right because i've read a couple of pinker's books”