Source: Law & Liberty
by Matthew T Cantirino
“The first—and typically journalistic—answer defaults to his biography. Intellectually, in terms of his influences, Kendall was not simply the disciple of one single thinker or the product of any one single school of thought. He counted among his influences Aristotle, Rousseau, and the Mayflower Compact. He became, in middle age, a devoted student of both Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin, both of whom reached the apogees of their own careers during his life. Kendall showed an admirable openness—exceedingly rare in tenured academics—to re-evaluate the fundamentals of his own intellectual outlook. Yet that—and his admittedly captivating personal story—sometimes gets him written off as brilliant but unsettled …” (08/27/26)
https://lawliberty.org/the-eclectic-genius-of-willmoore-kendall/