A Letter to

National Review / January 22, 1982

distasteful to be drawn into Professor Jaffa’s unique universe of discourse—and I want to reaffirm that it was not I who published my letter to him—his journalism has the aim of popularizing Leo Strauss’s teachings. Those teachings do not belong in such an arena, but, thanks now to Jaffa, in it they are, and misunderstanding and distortion are inevitable if he remains unanswered.