“[Leo] Strauss was intelligent enough when he came to the U.S. [from Germany] to disguise and channel his fascist thought by going back to like-minded ‘ancient’ philosophers and thereby presenting fascism as part of our ‘Western heritage’ . . . . Leo Strauss must be seen as the Godfather of the modern Republican Party’s political ideology,” says Todd E. Pierce.
8:41 am on August 11, 2015