Jacob Williams, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Jacob Williams

Jacob Williams is a British writer and a graduate of Oxford University, where he was the editor of the magazine No Offence. He has lived in China and Uganda and has worked in sales, tourism, and international development.

The Closing of the Western Mind

By Jacob Williams|2021-05-10T19:45:54-05:00January 19th, 2018|Categories: Conservatism, Culture, Culture War, Freedom, History, Modernity, Richard Weaver, Roger Scruton|

Allan Bloom’s diagnosis in The Closing of the American Mind can explain far more about the sorry state of American higher education and the Western condition than popular stories that blame the Enlightenment, or democracy, or medieval nominalism. And it is therefore a valuable starting point… Last year marked the thirtieth anniversary of Allan Bloom’s [...]