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Ivory Tower vs. Seat of Power: Leo Strauss and the Straussians

Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire, by Anne Norton. Yale University Press, 235 pages, $25.

A refugee from Nazi Germany, Leo Strauss came to the United States in 1938 and taught at the New School for Social Research and the University of Chicago until shortly before his death in 1973. Appalled at Read More

By Jonathan Tweedy 8/04/03 12:00am

Democracy Demoted, Displaced By A Better Bet: Liberty

The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad , by Fareed Zakaria. W.W. Norton, 286 pages, $24.95.

Addressing reporters at the Baghdad airport last month, Deputy Secretary of State Paul Wolfowitz declared: “I’m here to understand what is needed to complete the transition to a government and society of, by and for the Read More

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Ivory Tower vs. Seat of Power: Leo Strauss and the Straussians

Democracy Demoted, Displaced By A Better Bet: Liberty

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