The Power of Folk

David Bianculli: In the introduction to Strauss' new book, there's a paragraph that begins with the problem of natural. He says we were forced to become students of what is called the history of ideas. And then he quotes Lord Acton in an effort to emphasize one of the problems with engaging in a sort of increases. So I think one way to look at these initial quotations is to see a kind of recourse to Jerusalem and then this turn to America on page one of the introduction. It might seem like an attempt to redeem the Lockean-slash American sort of account of natural right over and against its sort of critics with some ancient support.