7. Dannhauser's key historical role was as the bridge between academic Straussianism and the neo-cons.
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8. Without Dannhauser, it's by no means obvious that Straussianism would become chief political theorists of neo-con movement.
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9. Prior to Dannhauser, you saw scattered in various factions (mostly on the right): Goldwater, Charles Percy, even Diefenbaker in Canada.
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10. At Commentary in 1960s as magazine drifted to right, Dannhauser embodied emerging fusion between neo-cons & Strauss.
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11. Remember the time Leo Strauss rescued Dannhauser, who had some bad gambling debts with mobsters: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/04/28/werner-dannhauser-rip/ …
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12. 12. As I said earlier, story reflects well on Stauss. I'm not sure if I would ever save a grad student from mafia retribution.
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13. But thinking more on it, the Dannhauser mob debt story also says something about Straussian pedagogy.
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14. Teacher's relationship with his students, Strauss believed, was not merely a professional one but also a paternal one.
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15. For Strauss, students were "young puppies of [my] race." Dannhauser a wayward reprobate puppy who needed some protection.
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16. If friendship based on shared love of philosophic truth is highest human relationship. then of course you bail out Dannhauser.
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17. @willwilkinson's forthcoming novel should feature a subplot about torrid affair between Dannhauser & Commentary editor Marion Magid.
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18. Commentary in 1960s was a swinging office: Dannhauser/Magid, Norman Mailer inviting Podhoretz to join a threesome, etc.
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19. Did Saul Bellow & Allan Bloom also help Dannhauser with mob debts or did I imagine that?
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