Leo Strauss
A Yale political scientist joins us to talk about esoteric writing and how to understand its relation to politics.
Is there anything distinctively Jewish about the philosopher’s thinking?
Ben-Gurion, Strauss, and Soloveitchik.
Doomed City.
Promoting philosophy while giving political society and revelation their due.
The best response to delegitimizers is engagement with Zionism’s founding texts.
The first universal morality.
Neither was a cynical atheist.
According to the late Leo Strauss, some of the West’s greatest devotees of philosophical truth and reason encoded their beliefs in hints, irony, and deliberate. . .
In a recent book, James A. Diamond explores how the philosophical ideas of Moses Maimonides were received by medieval and modern Jewish thinkers. Diamond, in. . .
Nazism, writes Daniel Johnson, is best understood as a movement to destroy Western civilization, a goal it shared with Soviet Communism. Too few Europeans understood. . .
Worshipped by his students and vilified by his enemies as the founder of a shadowy neoconservative conspiracy responsible for the 2003 Iraq war, Leo Strauss. . .
The brilliant and much-maligned political philosopher Leo Strauss has often been painted by his detractors as a reactionary warmonger. In a recent book, Robert Howse. . .