Leo Strauss, from <em>Leo Strauss: Man of Peace</em>

The Peaceful Philosophy of Leo Strauss, Who Inspired Iraq War Neocons

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 2, 2014

Leo Strauss was known as a man who inspired hawkish views on national security—he inspired neoconservative champions of the Iraq War William Kristol and John Podhoretz. Yet Robert Howse argues that we might have Strauss pegged all wrong. In Leo Strauss: Man of Peace, Robert Howse analyzes Strauss’s writings on political violence, concluding that Strauss favored international law, was skeptical of imperialism, and was critical of radical ideologies.

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