Thiel, Schmitt, and, Spengler - by John Ganz
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An Addendum
A number of people have asked why I didn’t engage more in my piece with Peter Thiel’s interest in Leo Strauss, the controversial political philosopher who inspired the neocons and the Claremont Institute. Part of the reason is that Strauss, while he once declared himself a fascist, is a very slippery character who (intentionally) brings with him a lot of problems of interpretation and I didn’t want the article to be about obscure hermeneutics. But I do regret not looking more closely at his essay “The Straussian Moment,” which I believe dates from 2004, during the height of the War on Terror…
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