Considering that many of the scholars that blog here are, to one degree or another, Straussians, I found this blog over at Spengler . . . well, informative.
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/spengler/2010/10/22/leo-strauss-destroyer-of-judaism/
Because I’ve not read Strauss and what I know of him I’ve picked up here, I was wondering if any of our learned PoMoCon bloggers or ‘commentors’ might care to respond? Pick up the gauntlet as it were.
Spengler, it should be noted, is a brilliant gentleman and scholar and not in the habit of disparaging Jews.
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