[lbo-talk] Strauss alert

socialismorbarbarism socialismorbarbarism at gmail.com
Sun Jul 3 23:56:02 PDT 2011


Joanna: "Have at it, Chuck."

Chuck vs. the writer of the article, Harry Jaffa? It hardly seems fair. Jaffa is a fat duck in a shallow barrel:

"...Harry V. Jaffa, 82, professor emeritus of political philosophy at Claremont McKenna College and the [Claremont] institute's unofficial swami-in-residence. In a previous role as a speech writer, Jaffa authored the phrase that galvanized Goldwater's 1964 presidential candidacy--and may have helped him lose the election to LBJ: 'Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.' ...

'The text of the Declaration of Independence is our Torah. It is a revelation from Mt. Sinai,' says Jaffa,..."

Jaffa on gays: ""To treat a member of the same sex as if it were a member of the opposite sex is as much a violation of nature as slavery or genocide."

Jaffa, victim of oppression: "The problem is the academic establishment is so firmly in the hands of our enemies now... At any liberal arts college, people with views of our persuasion are about as welcome as a Jew in Nazi Germany."

And so on...

http://articles.latimes.com/2001/mar/06/news/cl-33781/2

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 12:33 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> NYT calls Strauss the greatest political philosopher of the 20th century.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/books/review/book-review-aristotles-nicomachean-ethics.html
>
> Have at it, Chuck,
>
> Joanna
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