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Flat White

Populism, prejudice, and what’s left of liberal education

12 April 2018

7:32 AM

12 April 2018

7:32 AM

One of the most intellectually disabling of modern prejudices is the idea that you can be free from prejudice. Prejudice is what we are born and raised into. The attempt to try and prevent violent or immoral social action by an enforced posture of open-mindedness (based on an axiom of cultural relativism), as Allan Bloom showed in The Closing of the American Mind, has the effect of removing the impetus to any kind of education at all.

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