frandroid

My point was: yes, they are bad people, but, if you are going to call them bad (which is correct), it is nonetheless imperative that you do so for the right reasons. The general commentary on Strauss and Straussianism reveals an absolute failure on the part of liberals (I won't say "the left"!) to actually engage with his thought and why powerful people have found it compelling. (Not to mention that it absolutely ignores the profound fractures within the Straussian school that, like all factions - the left included, results in violent explosions and defenses of the orthodoxy. All the same, someone as unexceptional as Diana Schaub (whose book, Erotic Liberalism is nonetheless worth reading - but not right now as I have it out from the library) can receive a senior appointment in the Bush administration. (In education, I think.)