Strauss was a brilliant scholar from whom I have learned much. Of course he WAS very conservative (which I'm not).
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Some people thought of my book Leo Strauss Man of Peace as apologia for Strauss. But I had to challenge many of the negative misrepresentations of his thought before I could present my own critique. One of the reviewers who "got" what I was doing was Seyla Benhabib in Pol Theory
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No, damnit, it's not "substituting caustic adjectives for mellower phrases," it's "REPLACING caustic adjectives WITH mellower phrases" — or reverse the order: "substituting mellower phrases FOR caustic adjectives."
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