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The Stakes: Defending Leo Strauss ft. Michael Millerman

The American Mind

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Is He a Jewish Foreigner in America?

Roxanne Jones: What are the mis characterizations of strauss that we ought to be pushing back on? She says he opened up the possibility of a intellectually defensible religious life for many, not only jews but also christians and presumably also moslems. One other one is people who take him seriously by reading american democracy or contemporary liberalism as if it were some sort of xenophonous scerestrosity she adds. "It's not like you're going to find what you need to deal with the problems of contemporary global liberal democracy"

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