From a reader:

Dear Jonah,
It was impossible to come of age when and where Leo Strauss did, and not be influenced by, and indeed indebted to, Nietzsche. But Strauss was most certainly not a follower of Nietsche–read only the final pages of Strauss’s essay “What is Political Philosophy” to understand that Strauss saw Nietzsche as the culmination of Western Nihilism, and genuinely pitied him for it.
Strauss, and Eric Voegelin too, had a similar take on Nietzsche: admiration for his boldness, understanding for his predicament, and pity for his inability to believe in something greater than himself. I think Voegelin said something to the effect that “no man ever wanted and needed to believe in God as much as Nietszsche did, but he could not bring himself to do so.” A follower of Neitzsche’s could never be conservative.