<DIV>From Horowitz's Frontpage:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Strauss is an ambiguous, sometimes even troubling, figure, but he is essential to the conservative revival of our time and he offers the intellectual depth we are so desperately in need of. As a crude measure of his importance for those readers who continue to believe that philosophical matters are of no practical importance, consider the following list of his students or students of his students: Justice Clarence Thomas; Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork; Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz; former Assistant Secretary of State Alan Keyes; former Secretary of Education William Bennett</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>(This is plagiarized -- almost verbatim --  from Shadia Drury's Leo Strauss and the Ameriacn Right, p. 3.)<BR></DIV> <DIV>From The Claremont Institute Website (4/11/03)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bennett, after disclaiming that he was a Straussian of any stripe, offered a lucid mini-tutorial on justice in Plato's <I>Republic</I>, and gently (perhaps too gently) advised his interlocutors that they were not in full command of their faculties,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>(But if he were a Straussian he might lie about it! ;>)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Shadia Drury does not call a Bennett a Straussian but only a neoconservative influenced by Strauss. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Back in the late 1980s his name was mentioned along with real Straussians like Bloom and Bellow for his defense of "the canon" as an embodiment of civilization against "cultural relativism." That may account for the impression thaty he's one..</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>He's creepazoid anyway.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>jks </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR><B><I>andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <DIV>A student of Strauss, if memory is correct. jks<BR><BR><B><I>Luke Weiger <lweiger@umich.edu></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> <DIV>----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=andie_nachgeborenen@yahoo.com href="mailto:andie_nachgeborenen@yahoo.com">andie nachgeborenen</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, May 04, 2003 11:33 PM</DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [lbo-talk] Straussian moralist as high rolling gamber</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>> So _of course_ Bennett doeswn't think gambling (or, for that matter, parricide and incest) is </DIV> <DIV>> wrong. Nothing is wrong! (For him.) He cannot, however, consistent with Strauss, say, Well > _I'm_ special and you're not. So he flounders and flops like a fish on the hook. It is delightful > to see. jks</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You think Bennett is a Straussian?</FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-- Luke</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <P> <HR SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!?<BR><A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/search/mailsig/*http://search.yahoo.com">The New Yahoo! Search</A> - Faster. Easier. Bingo.</BLOCKQUOTE><p><hr SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!?<br> <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/search/mailsig/*http://search.yahoo.com">The New Yahoo! Search</a> - Faster. Easier. Bingo.