[gcruse]

he also believed that ''all practical or political life is inferior to contemplative life.''

Oh, lordy.  Save us from the 'better to muse than pay your dues,'
Heisenbergs of Philosophy. The dubious results of navel contemplation
that ne'er a payroll had to meet leads straight to the central planned
economy.  I can't believe a real conservative has such a belief, but
who knows?

After his death, Bloom's esoteric life as a closeted gay man turned out to be very different from his outward posture as a proponent of traditional values.

Heh.  Is Bill Bennett an archetype?

. The worst thing you can do to Leo Strauss, perhaps, is to read his books with Straussian eyes.

Just guessing here, but is this article a hit piece?  And can any form of conservatism really be
based on the gobbledy-gook that I could do no more than skim?

[Princeliberty]

This is neo-conservatism and that is the real
point that needs to understood,
what the masses consider conservatism
and what the small group of neo-conservatist
elites consider conservatism are very different
things. What average person describes
himself as a neo-conservative?

Its a group of elites who are not conservatives
but who think using and abusing conservatives
is a great idea.
Hench Bennett is great neo-conservative,
a phony who got rich using conservatives.

[Cathryn Crawford]

Read like a hit piece to me. A nice bit of propoganda at best.