26. Hey @willwilkinson is working on a novel that will flesh out my Leo Strauss tweets:https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/442826672811671552 …
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28. "Billy Pedersen": no novelist could get away with a name like that.
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29. Straussian Harvey Mansfield was very close to Bloom. Years after Bloom's death said he thinks about him every day.
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30. Mansfield also testified gay rights in Colorado case in early 1990s, saying anti-gay position could be defended on philosophic grounds
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31. Straussian position sometimes seems to be: we can't have open gay rights, that'll destroy pleasures of our private homoerotic club.
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32. Please re-read this Harry Jaffa dedication carefully: http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/pages/faculty/welliott/jaffaletter.htm …
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33. There's a Werner Dannhauser essay on the erotics of education that seems relevant to all this. Can't find it now.
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34. Dannhauser's argument was that it's teachers duty to make knowledge sexy. There's an erotics to education.
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35. Alan Keyes is a huge homophobe. In 1970s when Allan Bloom went to Paris, Keyes followed him there.
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36. One of Bloom's students became a Catholic priest. As priest he kept a photo of bloom in his office, only image he'd allow himself.
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