Quote of the day: Did ‘ahistorical Grecophilia’ persuade us to invade Iraq?
It’s kind of like hearing the neighbors arguing late at night — you can hear the shouts, but can’t quite make out the meaning. That is, I don’t quite understand the inside baseball here, but The American Conservative sets out to demolish neoconservative icon Leo Strauss: Strauss was at best a mediocre scholar whose thought ...
It's kind of like hearing the neighbors arguing late at night -- you can hear the shouts, but can't quite make out the meaning. That is, I don't quite understand the inside baseball here, but The American Conservative sets out to demolish neoconservative icon Leo Strauss:
It’s kind of like hearing the neighbors arguing late at night — you can hear the shouts, but can’t quite make out the meaning. That is, I don’t quite understand the inside baseball here, but The American Conservative sets out to demolish neoconservative icon Leo Strauss:
Strauss was at best a mediocre scholar whose thought expressed a confused bipolarity between a very German and ahistorical Grecophilia on the one hand and a scattered, dogmatic, and unsophisticated apology for an American version of liberal universalism on the other.
This is the equivalent of one soldier calling another "a lardass REMF fobbit liberal." Why do I mention this obscure intellectual squabble in this blog? Because there are those who contend that followers of Strauss at the Pentagon and elsewhere in the Bush administration were instrumental in getting the United States to invade Iraq.
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