Introduction

Damon Linker is a political pundit and he's also an intellectual, a rare combination, I would say. He worked at First Things magazine and then wrote a book called Theokons detailing kind of his understanding of the political trends in America specifically being pushed by kind of the religious influence on the right. Zohar: How do you balance the every day seeing where things are going with maybe this more grand narrative perspective that you often find in the Academy when you read a thinker like Leo Strauss? Linker: "I aspire to look at politics from something a little bit more like what Aristotle describes as kind of the political philosopher as umpire"