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,…
Faith, Philosophy, and Postmodernism in Voegelin
Faith and Political Philosophy the Correspondence between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin, 1934-1964. Peter Emberley and Barry Cooper, ed. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2004. Eric…
Hobbes in the Context of Modern Political Thought As Interpreted by Oakeshott, Strauss and Voegelin
The thought of Thomas Hobbes is a living force in philosophic reflection on modern politics. Yet many insist that an era of political philosophy, roughly beginning with…
Eros, Wisdom, and Silence: Plato’s Erotic Dialogues
Eros, Wisdom, and Silence: Plato's Erotic Dialogues. James M. Rhodes. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2003. Although his name and his disciples have dominated American political…
Pierre Manent on Raymond Aron and Leo Strauss
On the advice of your preparatory class teacher, you met Raymond Aron. How did the special relationship you had with him begin? First of all, I probably…
Strauss, Voegelin, and Arendt on the Good Society
De la bonne société. L. Strauss, E. Voegelin, H. Arendt. Le retour du politique en philosophie. Sylvie Courtine-Denamy. Paris: Éditions du Cerf, "La Nuit Surveillée" series, 2014…
A Leo Strauss for Our Time: From NeoCon Hawk to International Lawyer
Leo Strauss: Man of Peace. Robert Howse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Robert Howse, the Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law at NYU, has set…
Leo Strauss as Cold War Liberal
Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy. Grant N. Havers. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2013. The work of German expatriate political philosopher Leo Strauss has in…
A Catholic Strauss: A Reply to James Stoner’s “The Catholic Moment in the Political Philosophy of Leo Strauss”
It feels a little strange to raise the question of Leo Strauss’s relationship to Catholicism when his relationship to Judaism has scarcely been clarified. If we could…
The Catholic Moment in the Political Philosophy of Leo Strauss
When I first mentioned my plan to speak on the topic of this essay a few years back, I was greeted with guffaws, or at least the…