The Final Volley in the Strauss Wars?

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Notes

Notes

1. Shadia B. Drury, The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988). See also her Leo Strauss and the American Right (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997).

2. Stephen Holmes, The Anatomy of Antiliberalism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), 62.

3. Nicholas Xenos, Cloaked in Virtue: Unveiling Leo Strauss and the Rhetoric of American Foreign Policy (New York: Routledge, 2008).

4. Peter Minowitz, Straussophobia: Defending Leo Strauss and Straussians against Shadia Drury and Other Accusers (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009). See my review of this work in The European Legacy, vol. 16, no. 4 (2011), 553-554.

5. Grant N. Havers, Lincoln and the Politics of Christian Love (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2009), 13–14. Strauss's two pivotal essays on the conflict between Athens and Jerusalem are “Progress or Return? The Contemporary Crisis in Western Civilization” and “Jerusalem and Athens: Some Preliminary Reflections,” both of which can be found in Leo Strauss, Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought, edited with an introduction by Kenneth Hart Green (Albany: SUNY Press, 1997).

6. Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1953), 202–251.

7. Paul E. Gottfried, Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America: A Critical Appraisal (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 72-81, 92-95; Claes G. Ryn, America the Virtuous: The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2003), 115–16; Barry Alan Shain, The Myth of American Individualism: The Protestant Origins of American Political Thought (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994), 15–16; Havers, Lincoln and the Politics of Christian Love, 113–45.

8. For example, see Michael P. Zuckert, “Natural Rights and Protestant Politics,” in Protestantism and the American Founding, ed. Thomas S. Engeman and Michael P. Zuckert (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004), 21–75. See also the insightful replies to Zuckert by Peter Augustine Lawler and Thomas G. West in the same volume.

9. Strauss, Natural Right and History, 28.