A Thinker’S Progress

THE achievement of Leo Strauss has in recent years begun to be generally recognized even by those who did not have the privilege of studying with him or with his students. In 1959, Willmoore Kendall identified Strauss as “the great teacher of political philosophy, not of our time alone, but of any time since Machiavelli”; the rest of the world is starting to catch up with Kendall’s assessment.

Mr. Lenzner recently completed his doctoral dissertation, “Leo Strauss and the Problem of Freedom of Thought,” at Harvard.

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THE achievement of Leo Strauss has in recent years begun to be generally recognized even by those who did not have the privilege of studying with him or with his students. In 1959, Willmoore Kendall identified Strauss as “the great teacher of political philosophy, not of our time alone, but of any time since Machiavelli”; the rest of the world is starting to catch up with Kendall’s assessment.

Mr. Lenzner recently completed his doctoral dissertation, “Leo Strauss and the Problem of Freedom of Thought,” at Harvard.