When you hear some “conservative” lecturing us to “grow up” and accept TSA groping, NSA spying, etc, you are listening to a Straussian.
Gottfried is on the right side. But I find his writing really boring. Hard to imagine a whole book ...
He is quite good as a lecturer.
Bolshevism and Democratic Socialism
Stalinism, National Socialism and Fascism
Modern Democracy and War
Unimagined Power: The Presidency in the History of Political Philosophy
The Therapeutic Welfare State
Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and the Welfare State
Liberal Internationalism: From the Founding of the Council on Foreign Relations to the Neoconservative Ascendancy