The Public Interest

What was Leo Strauss up to?

Steven Lenzner & William Kristol

Fall 2003

THE only way to begin to understand Leo Strauss’s political thought is by studying his writings. This may seem a simple rule of common sense. Yet a glance at the current controversy over Strauss’s supposed influence on contemporary American politics and foreign policy suggests that this rule is easily ignored. 

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