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since Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:04:17.
Followup: Leo Strauss, Neocons, and Maimonides
The essay "Leo Strauss: September 10, 1899 -- October 18, 1973" contains another paragraph worth reproducing because of its irony now that we can see so clearly the harm done to the USA and the Middle East by the Neoconservative cult that grew around Strauss. Allan Bloom writes on p. 252:
Strauss, with his respect for speech and its power, believed that men are responsible for what they say. And it was not entirely an accident of personality that Heidegger, who most of all contemporaries attracted a cult by brave talk, not only prepared the atmosphere for Hitler but eagerly enlisted his rhetoric in Hitler's cause.
