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You are listening to The partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who are at one point

said on doing philosophy for living but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 192 is something like, what is the role of the university in our democracy?

And we read Alan Blooms, the closing of the American mind, how higher education has failed

democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students from 1987. For more information,

please check out partiallyexaminalife.com. This is Mark Linson-Meyer, imitating Mick Jagger to make

others esteem me and increase myself a steam in Madison, Wisconsin. That's a quote from page 79.

This is Seth Paschinen, Austin, Texas. This is Wes Allen in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey participating in my essential being and ignoring my accidental life in Madison

Wisconsin. So this Alan Bloom fellow, I believe Wes, you suggested this originally and then it

turns out all three of you had read this. I was the only one that hadn't read this. When did I

suggest this? I think it was in the context of that our next guest, Peter Canales. Yes, so he's the

president of St. John's College and he's going to be our guest next time. We'll be reading some texts

about the value of a liberal education. And I think this had been an art rate of four and so

at least then, Wes, I believe is when you had said that we should do this in preparation for that.

That makes sense. Yeah, this was a huge book. It makes sense to me that Wes and I and I'm a little

surprised you didn't read it, Mark. These were such a big book in the late 80s talking about liberal

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