A NEOCON CONFESSES

Thanks to Adam Curtis's ludicrously over-hyped TV series The Power of Nightmares, half the British population is labouring under the illusion that the world is run by a secret society made up of Straussians. Terror expert Peter Bergen has already pooh-poohed that notion, as has Paul Wolfowitz himself. Now another alleged member of the conspiracy, the brilliant Robert Kagan, comes clean:

Some of my closest friends are Straussians, and I have long admired the work of Allan Bloom, Harry Jaffa, Harvey Mansfield, and Thomas Pangle--though not, I must say, Leo Strauss himself, since I have never understood a word the political philosopher wrote. I mean not a single word...

There isn't room here to list all the places where I have been called a Straussian--a Google search for "Robert Kagan" and "Leo Strauss" turns up 16,500 hits... A professor somewhere named Anne Norton has written a whole book assuming that I am a Straussian. You may ask why didn't she call me, just to confirm. But that would have been journalism, not scholarship.

[Via Power Line, which, incidentally, has just racked up its 50 millionth hit.]

Comments

[yellerKat]

I thought you meant Johann Strauss. With whose secret waltzing society we could all be happy.