The State of the American MindIn 1987, Allan Blooms The Closing of the American Mind was published; a wildly popular book that drew attention to the shift in American culture away from the tenants that made Americaand Americansunique. Bloom focused on a breakdown in the American curriculum, but many sensed that the issue affected more than education. The very essence of what it meant to be an American was disappearing. That was over twenty years ago. Since then, the United States