Leo Strauss
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. . .
A small industry has been devoted to demonizing a great 20th-century scholar, teacher, and (qualified) defender of liberal democracy. Why?
Leo Strauss and Martin Heidegger were both critics of modernity. One defended liberal democracy; the other sought to destroy it.