A probing study that demystifies the common portrayal of Leo Strauss as the inspiration for American neo-conservativism by tracing his philosophy to its German Jewish roots. Born in rural Hesse, ...

Even if you are convinced that nothing new or provocative could possibly be said about Leo Strauss, Rob Howse’s book will force you to rethink your position. Both friends and foes of Strauss will find ...

This book offers an original interpretation of the achievement of Leo Strauss, stressing how his ideas and followers reshaped the American conservative movement. According to this study, Strauss and ...

If it is Tuesday, a prominent American politician must be accusing another of being a fascist. In a recent meeting with ...

Richard Leo Strauss, 76, passed away on July 30, 2022 in Mill Creek, WA, in the arms of his beloved family.He was born in Yuba City, CA, on June 22, 1946 to Ada Lavene Young and Nathan A.

He is the author of Leo Strauss, Max Weber, and the Scientific Study of Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2003), and is currently working on a book-length study of the liberalism of John Locke.

political scientists Arnold Brecht and Aristide Zolberg, sociologists Emil Lederer and Peter Berger, psychologists Max Wertheimer and Jerome Bruner, historian Charles Tilly, and philosophers Hannah ...

The philosophy of the “Claremonsters,” as he and his collaborators are somewhat affectionately called by outsiders, is inspired by the 20th-century German-American thinker Leo Strauss ...

Ben: Hello, I’m Ben Wattenberg. When people talk about America and when people talk about democracy, they talk first about one man: Alexis de Tocqueville and his book Democracy In America ...

Speakers summoned the grand ideas of figures like the Pope, Homer, Dostoyevsky, Leo Strauss, Tocqueville and Gramsci. English was the common language, spattered with classical Latin. Modern ...

Portnoff's areas of research include Leo Strauss' influence on Emil L. Fackenheim and Primo Levi's use of Dante's Commedia in If This is a Man. Portnoff also coordinates the Miriam Melrod Lecture in ...