Leo Strauss
“You should” will never be as compelling as “you must.”
Leo Strauss on “Religion and the Commonweal.”
Tenet and the tenets of progressivism.
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. . .
