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June 4, 2024

Leo Strauss on the Theology of Political Rage

Rebelling against “a holy law; but of this they appeared to be wholly unconscious.”

While there is little use in speculating what the great German Jewish political theorist Leo Strauss would have said about today’s campus unrest, it’s worth considering what he wrote about political rage more generally. Glenn Ellmers, reviewing a newly published volume of Strauss’s essays, observes:

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