
Leo Strauss on Persecution, Education, and Revelation with Michael Millerman
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The Neetianization of the Left
Carl Schmidt is a hilarious figure in the culture wars today because why has he not been canceled by the left? Do you have any theory on, on like the wormhole that the name Carl Schmidt has entered in the culture war? How did that happen? Yeah. So I would say this Alan Bloom in his 80s book, Closing of the American Mind, he discusses the neetianization of the left. Heidegger has slipped out of the hands of the left, in part due to the Russian reinterpretation of Heidegger and some other features. And at some point he's going to become problematic for them, just like Heidegger.
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