[Torie]

Leo was a very secular man who thought religion was useful in the public square. He was a believer in a robust government (without which man would return to the jungle, where life was at once brutish and short), but cyncial that it was so subject to corruption, and thus sought palliatives, which while he was cryptic, in the end he thought would fail. His favorite philosopher, or if not his favorite, was way up there, was Machiavelli, whom he profoundly understood, in a way that entirely escapes the popular impression. But Leo was ultimately more pessimistic than Neo's are today, and considerably more conflicted and ambivalent. Events have turned out better than Leo anticipated. Maybe we have been lucky.

[pierrem15]

I know. I have most of his books (and those of his students) on my shelves and had two professors who were his students.

What I meant was, Why is his name brought up frequently as though he was some kind of Dr. Strangelove?