Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss on the Natural Law: Differing Approaches
Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss were both driven to reconsider the status of the knowability of the natural law by their opposition to the regnant dogmas of…
William H.F. Altman, The Bogotá Lectures; §3. “Plato and ‘Plato’”
There is no doubt that Nietzsche’s relationship to Plato is a complicated one. In my book on Nietzsche, I tried to show that this complexity derives from…
Leo Strauss and His Catholic Readers
Leo Strauss and His Catholic Readers. Geoffrey M. Vaughan, ed. Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press: 2018 A Platonic philosopher and Socratic dialectician, Leo…
Leo Strauss and His Catholic Reader
Leo Strauss and His Catholic Readers. Geoffrey M. Vaughan, ed. Catholic University of America Press, 2018. This is a most welcome, often profound inquiry into the…
On the Catholic Appreciation of Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss and His Catholic Readers. Geoffrey M. Vaughan, ed. Washington D.C.: Catholic University Press, 2018. “Strauss embraced classical philosophy over religious faith, not as a…
Leo Strauss and the 1960s
Almost inevitably the effort to claim Leo Strauss for the left has to deal with the problem of the 1960’s “Revolution” and its transformation of the politics…
Leo Strauss and The National Review
“The crisis of liberalism is a crisis due to the fact that it has abandoned its absolutist basis and is trying to become entirely relativistic.” - Leo…
Leo Strauss vs. Edmund Burke
A known critic of historicism and contextualism, Leo Strauss published his seminal essay, ‘What is Political Philosophy?’ in 1957 in the Journal of Politics and introduced a…
Silence is Not Always Golden: Investigating the Silence Surrounding the Thought of Eric Voegelin
I What I offer in these pages is not an “introduction to the reading of Voegelin” à la Alexandre Kojève with Hegel. Nor am I undertaking a…
The Burkean Tradition of Strauss and Voegelin
Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin were scholars in the field of political philosophy, yet they did not have an explicit political teaching. They studied the great political…
Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World
Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World: Reorienting the Political, Kai Marchal and Carl K.Y. Shaw, eds. Lanham, Lexington Books, 2017. Carl Schmitt and…
Response to Gottfried
Diversity on the Right Paul Gottfried has noticed a “gaping hole” in my recent piece on Leo Strauss. This “gaping hole” consists of an insufficiently detailed account…
Response to Colin D. Pearce
Having carefully read Colin D. Pearce’s study of the critics of Leo Strauss and Strauss’s still flourishing school of thought, I am left with the sense that…
The Monstrous Politics of Leo Strauss
But as perfect men I regard those who are able to mingle and fuse political capacity with philosophy. Such men, I take it, are masters of the…
Teaching in an Age of Ideology: Leo Strauss
So far I have examined a set of thinkers that could be classified in the same school of thought as “Voegelinian”: Eric Voegelin, Ellis Sandoz, Gerhart Niemeyer,…
