The real paradox I still can't get around is how Leo Strauss, a product of the early 20th century classics obsessed German education system who had real doubts about modernity & enjoined the close reading of difficult texts, spawned a school of USA! USA! MAGA-heads.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Perhaps one way of resolving this "paradox" is to accept that nothing like this ever occurred.
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Replying to @olivertraldi @HeerJeet
What part of Jeet’s narrative do you reject? Does seem like there is a line of descent from Strauss to the Claremont Review crew
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Replying to @EricLevitz @HeerJeet
Well, I often enjoy the Claremont Review crew, and don't think they're "MAGA-heads" or really anything else-heads, so maybe that's where the disagreement lies.
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In general the left's classifications and genealogies of right-wing thought are insane. Because it's considered impossible to think that there might be anything natural, intuitive, or plausible about any right-wing position, there always have to be these elaborate stories.
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Replying to @olivertraldi @EricLevitz
The reverse is true: the existing right-wing histories of right-wing thought are very, very bad because they whitewash the past. The left histories of the right offer a necessary corrective. See here:https://newrepublic.com/article/151127/conservatives-know-much-conservative-history …
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if one thing is bullshit, there's a need for an equal and opposite bullshit reaction to arrive at something correct. okay.
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Exactly: that isn't "the reverse".
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It's the reverse because the people doing it are serious scholars (I cite some in the piece). Or listen to Know Your Enemy, which does a very engaged, careful close reading of these figures.
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