Source: Law & Liberty
by Daniel J Mahoney
“On the one hand, left-wing academics and the journalists who endlessly recirculate cliches and terrible simplifications see in Strauss-influenced scholars an elitist and anti-democratic cabal; those political theorists, not few in number, who specialize in reducing thinkers to the commonplace categories of their age mock the Straussian claim that the thought that informs the Great Books has transhistorical significance. On the other hand, some conservatives and people of faith see in Strauss’s approach a barely concealed Averroism that reduces religion to a useful tool for encouraging self-restraint among ordinary souls and a mere simulacra of deeper philosophical truths. … most critics of Strauss and Straussians assume a uniformity in the Straussian world that simply doesn’t exist and never really has.” (04/16/24)
https://lawliberty.org/features/leo-strauss-and-the-promise-of-political-philosophy/