Gary J. Schmitt and Abram N. Shulsky, “Leo Strauss and the World of Intelligence (by Which We Do Not Mean Nous),” in Leo Strauss, the Straussians, and the American Regime, ed. Kenneth L. Deutsch and John A. Murley (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), 410-410.
See the updated edition of Shadia B. Drury, The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), especially “Foreign Policy Fiasco.”
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There is an important difference between improving liberal democracy by criticizing it openly and “improving” it by seeking to subvert it from within.
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Leo Strauss, Liberalism Ancient and Modern (New York: Basic Books, 1968), 4-4. See also Shadia B. Drury, “The Covert Rule of the Wise” and “Subverting Democracy,” in the updated edition of Drury, The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss.
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Leo Strauss, City and Man(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964), 77-77, 84-84, 85-85.
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Leo Strauss, “The State of Israel,”National Review3, no. 1 (January 5, 1957): 23-23.
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Leo Strauss, Persecution and the Art of Writing (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1952), 36-36.
