Leo Strauss might have been pleased but somewhat puzzled to find himself admired by a contemporary artist like Laurie Fendrich, since things contemporary are not normally looked upon as things he ...

Born 125 years ago this year, political philosopher Leo Strauss became a patron saint of US conservatism. Strauss was one of ...

In spite of its intellectual heftiness, his most recent book—Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America—is must reading for the serious minded interested in learning just what ...

IN RECENT YEARS, the political philosopher Leo Strauss (1899-1973) has become something of a household name. This has been a mixed blessing. With a few notable exceptions, reports in the press ...

If the comparison is not impious, we may speak of a similar contest for custody of Leo Strauss. According to his admirers, Strauss earned a place among the angels by promoting Greek-inspired ...

Grant Havers, a professor at Trinity Western University in British Columbia, has written an erudite and thoughtful study of Leo Strauss and the philosophical and political forces he fathered in ...

In her review of “Plato Goes to China” by Shadi Bartsch (Bookshelf, Feb. 27), Martha Bayles rightly defends Leo Strauss against the charge that the professor was an antidemocrat who would have ...

No, not Dick Cheney. The alleged puppeteer was the late Leo Strauss. The famous professor of political philosophy, who died in 1973, had many disciples in the Bush administration, and journalists ...

Richard Wolin’s “Leo Strauss, Judaism, and Liberalism” (The Chronicle Review, April 14) seriously misrepresents Leo Strauss’s thought and political judgments. First of all, Wolin’s ...

From a reader: Dear Jonah, I have a rule of not writing commentators, but Leo Strauss so mis-represented and mis-understood in both the conservative and the liberal media, that I decided to go ...