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So who exactly is more likely to be provincial and ignorant of other ways of thinking? The question is rhetorical. That is why the late distinguished University of Chicago professor Allan Bloom wrote his best-selling "The Closing of the American Mind," not about religious or conservative America but about secular liberal America as embodied in its temple, the university.
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I do hear what you're saying, Tom, and agree to a certain extent. Yet secular universities at least encourge exploration of and debate along a range of points of view, regardless of the subject and including religions, so are inherently less insular. That's a bias I can live with.
Cindy