In Harper’s, the political scientist Benjamin Barber called [Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind] “a most enticing, a most subtle, a most learned, a most dangerous tract.”
This would be the Benjamin Barber most enticed by the most subtle, most learned, Muammar Qaddafi.
The Barber who wrote countless opinion pieces praising Qaddafi, a man he called “a poet of democracy.”