“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency — the belief that the here and now is all there is.”
— Athenaeum Book Club (@athenaeumbc) June 8, 2026
— Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind pic.twitter.com/p7MKoWSqOW
Why did human beings ever build things like this?
— Athenaeum Book Club (@athenaeumbc) June 4, 2026
Because their minds were ordered toward objective Beauty and Truth.
We must order our minds as they did — that's why we started this book club.
Our group is studying the great texts and ideas upon which Western Civilization was… pic.twitter.com/tZtB23wPhS
