The Straussian Neo-cons

Anne Norton, professor of Political Science at U Penn, will publish a book exposing neo-conservatives via Yale University Press.

Norton studied with Strauss�s students and admirers, at the University of Chicago. She describes how Paul Wolfowitz, Irving Kristol and other prominent Straussian neocons drew on and then misused Strauss�s ideas to further their own policies. Today, these neoconservatives are "committed to an American imperialism they believe will usher in a new world order." The advance press information accompanying her book cites Norton�s revelations: many Straussian adherents who worked (and presumably work) in Republican administrations "advocate authoritarianism and praise military dictators"; and then raises her significant question, "How Europeans rightly see the shadow of fascism in Straussian politics, and why Americans fail to."

Bellicose neoconservatives "came to power and have influenced the character of governance in the United States. Their ascendance is also," writes Norton, "a story of American conservatism� a radical departure from traditional American conservatism�They are not preservers; they are (as they will tell you) revolutionaries� we know that the influence of the Straussian matters. We need to ask where that influence leads."

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So, how do we reconcile this?

[edit on 20-9-2004 by Jamuhn]