What Is the Relationship Between Philosophy and Politics?

Alex Castellanos: In the first chapter of Strauss' new book, he gives an incisive critique of liberalism. He says that freedom of thought in a large number of cases amounts to choosing between two or more different views presented by public speakers and writers. If this choice is prevented, the only kind of intellectual independence of which many people are capable is destroyed,Castellanos says. The author then offers what he calls "a much more pronounced critique of totalitarianism with sort of subtle liberalism"