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@UnusualPickle A huge amount of movement conservativism is inherited from Plato by way of Leo ...

Edit The Escapist 26 May 2016
@UnusualPickle A huge amount of movement conservativism is inherited from Plato by way of Leo Strauss, actually. The Escapist. Archon's Profile . Send PM Twitter. archon . Reply ... ....

The Italian People and the Egyptian Machtstaat

Edit CounterPunch 08 Apr 2016
Let us start by denying that there is anything at all called ‘liberal values’ that the West has to defend ... Schmidt had a fundamental impact on the thought of Leo Strauss ( 2004. 5, 35, 38-40) ... Sheldon Wolin tells us that Leo Strauss is one of the two main influences on today’s élitist political thought. Strauss taught Joseph Cropsey, who taught prominent members of the defence establishment like Paul Wolfowitz and Abram Shulsky ( 2004 ... W....

Bring on the Crackup: Hoping for a Trump–Sanders Election

Edit CounterPunch 28 Mar 2016
As I write this, in mid-late March 2016, things are generally going the way that I have hoped for–but of course this sort of analysis is in danger of being overtaken by events at any moment. Still, I think the basic principles and analysis will remain sound ... To bring in a little complexity ... W ... (Not to pursue this question here, but let us mention the hand of Leo Strauss in all of this, and, in particular of Plato’s Republic ... ....

Hypocritical rabbis versus Donald Trump

Edit The Examiner 22 Mar 2016
Presidential hopeful Donald Trump is tonight making his obligatory speech to the most powerful part of the most powerful lobby in the US. the American Israel Public Affairs Committee of the Israel lobby ... The rabbis are clergymen of Judaism ... The founder of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament based neoconservative movement, Leo Strauss, knew this and that is why he wanted society based on the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament ... Follow me on twitter....

Why Judaism, Christianity and Islam are Un-American

Edit The Examiner 19 Mar 2016
In the United States politicians from both parties too frequently attempt to show the voters how religious they are. They often speak of Judeo-Christian values and the US Constitution in the same breath to win support and votes ... The US Constitution is not based on Judaism or Christianity ... The father of the neoconservative movement, Leo Strauss, believed governments should be based on the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament ... Follow me on twitter....

What If Donald Trump Becomes President? In the magazine

Edit Newsweek 16 Mar 2016
January 20, 2017. WASHINGTON, D.C.—Speaking to more than a million spectators, vowing to “make America great again” and declaring that he’s a leader who is “a fantastic success, just like my amazing, amazing companies,” Donald J ... Like, better than Lincoln ... Really bad ... I could ... Philosopher Leo Strauss coined the term reductio ad Hitlerum, the common tendency to reduce all arguments to Hitler, or to always see an action leading to Nazism ... ....

What Will a Trump Presidency Look Like? The Rise of the Nazis Is a Pretty ...

Edit Alternet 15 Mar 2016
Milton Mayer's book presents an upsettingly familiar formula to fascism and explains how It could happen here, too. Editor's Note. This essay is adapted from Thom Hartmann's review of They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer ... He watched it all ... … ... As Leo Strauss, the mentor of the neoconservatives currently controlling much of Washington, pointed out, it's not even necessary that the so-called enemies of the nation really be enemies....

Why We Write

Edit Huffington Post 14 Mar 2016
If you start getting irritated with political science professor friends during this campaign, it's because of the discipline and what it was meant to do -- understand and defend democracy and avoid the failures of civic culture ... Then, in 1946, a victorious America invested in understanding how to defend and preserve democracy ... Political science also gave the world Leo Strauss and neoconservative political thought, for good or for ill ... ....

How the French Face Terror

Edit The New York Review of Books 08 Mar 2016
Abbas/Magnum Photos. A demonstrator with an issue of Charlie Hebdo at the march against terrorism, Paris, January 11, 2015 ... Intellectuals, no less than politicians, respond to crises based on what they think they learned from earlier ones ... Manent is neither on the left nor easily classifiable on the right, a Catholic with equal debts to the great French liberal Raymond Aron and to the political philosopher Leo Strauss ... ....

What Bernie and the Left Need Now: A Radical Enlightenment

Edit The New Republic 29 Feb 2016
Something strange has occurred in American politics ... Donald Trump has drawn support from evangelicals despite (not because of) his personal piety ... And Trump is hardly the paradigm of sober virtue ... Even a certain strain of conservatism (especially American Neoconservatism) has assented to this “amicable separation,” as Leo Strauss perennially warned against the rise of a “Philosopher-King”—lest he become an absolute tyrant. ....

Note to Conspiracy Theorists: The Neo-Conservatives aren’t Zionists

Edit Asia Times 29 Feb 2016
The betting markets on the American primary elections show an 87% probability that Hillary Clinton will head the Democratic ticket and a 76% probability that Donald Trump will lead the Republicans. Between the two, Trump is the pro-Israel candidate. First, his daughter Ivanka is an observant Orthodox Jew after her conversion and marriage to Jared Kushner, the scion of a prominent family of Jewisih philanthropists ... Leo Strauss ...  ....

Were We Lied Into War?

Edit Antiwar 19 Feb 2016
This denizen of the murkier depths of the US intelligence community is a devotee of the philosopher Leo Strauss, who believed – as one scholar cited by Hersh put it – “that philosophers need to tell noble lies not only to the people at large but also to powerful politicians.” The OSP, set up in order to do an end run around the official ......

GOP Frontrunner: ‘Bush Lied, People Died’

Edit Antiwar 15 Feb 2016
Bush should be impeached as he supposedly said in a long ago interview.. “George Bush made a mistake. We can make mistakes ... DICKERSON ... The Special Plans brigade – headed up by Abram Shulsky, a scholarly expert on the politics of the philosopher Leo Strauss, who believed in the necessity of telling “noble lies” – was the conduit that funneled fabrications authored by Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress into the US intelligence stream....
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