Leo Strauss, Fascism, and the Contemporary, Trumpist Republican Party

The political philosopher Leo Strauss proposed the idea that philosophers and theologians in the past (Maimonides, Spinoza, Halevi) practiced an “art of writing”* whereby they expounded views with exoteric meanings meant for the general public (and the censors) but hid … Continue reading Leo Strauss, Fascism, and the Contemporary, Trumpist Republican Party