The idea that the universal morality ... Anne Norton, professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire.

the Moderns Leo Strauss (1899-1973)—who fled his ... Condorcet, and Comte. The political fruit of his ideas has been borne out in Communism and Progressivism. The “third wave” was an ...

This book offers an original interpretation of the achievement of Leo Strauss, stressing how his ideas and followers reshaped the American ... Straussians have never wished to convert Americans to ...

is inspired by the 20th-century German-American thinker Leo Strauss, whose ideas have been developed by some conservatives into a theory of American political exceptionalism. Compared with other ...

On Constitution Day, Sept. 17, it’s worth thinking about the political framework used by the framers of our constitutional ...

it’s that the central problem in Leo Strauss is the problem of political correctness, which is the whole idea of Persecution and the Art of Writing — the idea that societies are less tolerant ...

A moment’s reflection suggests the reason behind conservatives' tendency to lavish praise on foreign regimes and their ...

In a recent letter to unnamed beneficiaries of a dark-money fund that he evidently controls, Leo bemoaned “that conservative ...

One of the primary centers of that discontent were the “German nihilists” of which Leo Strauss, a German emigre and political philosopher ... and Enlightenment ideas, culture, and institutions ...

In the world of political fund-raising, there is hard money, soft money, dark money — and Leonard Leo money. Political ...

Nasser Behnegar teaches early modern political theory, contemporary political theory, and political economy. He is the author of Leo Strauss, Max Weber, and the Scientific Study of Politics, as well ...