The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss

In his analysis, Lampert largely circumvents the controversies associated with Strauss's name such as his purported influence on neoconservatism and, by extension, their signature policy decision-the invasion of Iraq. Additionally, he finds that Friedrich Nietzsche, generally understood as a kind of late-Machiavelli or prototype-postmodernist deliberately teaching evil, in fact "rightly advances philosophy's great tradition of rule by the rational."