In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students. Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis, being a result of a Memoria Press product: https://www.memoriapress.com/curriculum/mcp/the-closing-of-the-american-mind-how-higher-education-has-failed-democracy-and-impoverished-the-souls-of-todays-students/