New long article by Robert Locke on
Leo Strauss, Conservative Mastermind. It's a fascinating introduction to an important thinker, but it looks like reading Strauss takes you round and round and gets you nowhere, just more confused. I don't know what to think about Strauss or whether Locke is right or wrong, clever or foolish, but he certainly isn't afraid to deal with the big issues.
Thanks for the heads up on the article. I just printed it out today with a bunch of other things off Front Page Magazine, and I'm going to read it soon. It seems pretty interesting. I first of Strauss through the
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, whose headquarters is only a few miles up the road from me in northern Delaware. They've been really good to me in terms of my development as a young conservative. Strauss seems to be a pretty influential figure in the development of the modern conservative intellectual movement, not as up there as Russell Kirk for von Hayek, but still pretty significant.
Thanks for the link to the article on Strauss. While being aware of his influence and significance, I hadn't tried to pick up anything of his until last year. At Christmas, I purchase his and Crpsey's
History of Political Philosophy but with other, more digestible, books in the hopper, I have only read a few chapters.
Bloom's translation of the Republic also found its way onto my shelf last year...but that is a task for a really long vacation, LOL.
Business leaves so little time for mental recreation.