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  1. Jonathan Emmesedi @[email protected] ·

    @crookedfootball.bsky.social

    Here's one Bloom influenced conservative writing in 2023 that " today it is the American right that most fully embodies the attitudes that so alarmed Mr. Bloom."

    nytimes.com/2023/11/06/opinion

    In part, the horror at Trump's "nihilism" expressed in this piece reflects a split amongst followers of Leo Strauss, with "West Coast" Straussians being fully on board with Trump, while "East Coast" - "Chicago" would be a more accurate designation - Straussians like this author tending towards something between political quietism and chastened neoconservatism.

    I am not a conservative, still less a Straussian, but I have found that one can have interesting conversations with East Coasters. The West Coasters have become apologists for the worst excesses of fascism US style.

    To a scholar from the UK where Straussianism is academically insignificant, the disagreement must seem bizarre - a clash between advocates of US exceptionalism at its most virulent and people whose intellectual growth ended with the final episode of Kenneth Clark's "Civilization" - but it matters here, so just take it as a sign of how different the US is from the UK .

    I mentioned the difference between Harry Jaffa/West Coasters and Allan Bloom/East Coasters and the effect this might have on university liberal arts programs in this post here:

    c.im/@jemmesedi/11353573843661

    #USConservatism #LeoStrauss #WestCoastStruassianism #EastCoastStraussianism

    #usconservatism #leostrauss #westcoaststruassianism #eastcoaststraussianism
  2. Jonathan Emmesedi @[email protected] ·

    @crookedfootball.bsky.social

    Here's one Bloom influenced conservative writing in 2023 that " today it is the American right that most fully embodies the attitudes that so alarmed Mr. Bloom."

    nytimes.com/2023/11/06/opinion

    In part, the horror at Trump's "nihilism" expressed in this piece reflects a split amongst followers of Leo Strauss, with "West Coast" Straussians being fully on board with Trump, while "East Coast" - "Chicago" would be a more accurate designation - Straussians like this author tending towards something between political quietism and chastened neoconservatism.

    I am not a conservative, still less a Straussian, but I have found that one can have interesting conversations with East Coasters. The West Coasters have become apologists for the worst excesses of fascism US style.

    To a scholar from the UK where Straussianism is academically insignificant, the disagreement must seem bizarre - a clash between advocates of US exceptionalism at its most virulent and people whose intellectual growth ended with the final episode of Kenneth Clark's "Civilization" - but it matters here, so just take it as a sign of how different the US is from the UK .

    I mentioned the difference between Harry Jaffa/West Coasters and Allan Bloom/East Coasters and the effect this might have on university liberal arts programs in this post here:

    c.im/@jemmesedi/11353573843661

    #USConservatism #LeoStrauss #WestCoastStruassianism #EastCoastStraussianism

    #usconservatism #leostrauss #westcoaststruassianism #eastcoaststraussianism
  3. Jonathan Emmesedi @[email protected] ·

    @crookedfootball.bsky.social

    Here's one Bloom influenced conservative writing in 2023 that " today it is the American right that most fully embodies the attitudes that so alarmed Mr. Bloom."

    nytimes.com/2023/11/06/opinion

    In part, the horror at Trump's "nihilism" expressed in this piece reflects a split amongst followers of Leo Strauss, with "West Coast" Straussians being fully on board with Trump, while "East Coast" - "Chicago" would be a more accurate designation - Straussians like this author tending towards something between political quietism and chastened neoconservatism.

    I am not a conservative, still less a Straussian, but I have found that one can have interesting conversations with East Coasters. The West Coasters have become apologists for the worst excesses of fascism US style.

    To a scholar from the UK where Straussianism is academically insignificant, the disagreement must seem bizarre - a clash between advocates of US exceptionalism at its most virulent and people whose intellectual growth ended with the final episode of Kenneth Clark's "Civilization" - but it matters here, so just take it as a sign of how different the US is from the UK .

    I mentioned the difference between Harry Jaffa/West Coasters and Allan Bloom/East Coasters and the effect this might have on university liberal arts programs in this post here:

    c.im/@jemmesedi/11353573843661

    #USConservatism #LeoStrauss #WestCoastStruassianism #EastCoastStraussianism

    #usconservatism #leostrauss #westcoaststruassianism #eastcoaststraussianism
  4. Jonathan Emmesedi @[email protected] ·

    @crookedfootball.bsky.social

    Here's one Bloom influenced conservative writing in 2023 that " today it is the American right that most fully embodies the attitudes that so alarmed Mr. Bloom."

    nytimes.com/2023/11/06/opinion

    In part, the horror at Trump's "nihilism" expressed in this piece reflects a split amongst followers of Leo Strauss, with "West Coast" Straussians being fully on board with Trump, while "East Coast" - "Chicago" would be a more accurate designation - Straussians like this author tending towards something between political quietism and chastened neoconservatism.

    I am not a conservative, still less a Straussian, but I have found that one can have interesting conversations with East Coasters. The West Coasters have become apologists for the worst excesses of fascism US style.

    To a scholar from the UK where Straussianism is academically insignificant, the disagreement must seem bizarre - a clash between advocates of US exceptionalism at its most virulent and people whose intellectual growth ended with the final episode of Kenneth Clark's "Civilization" - but it matters here, so just take it as a sign of how different the US is from the UK .

    I mentioned the difference between Harry Jaffa/West Coasters and Allan Bloom/East Coasters and the effect this might have on university liberal arts programs in this post here:

    c.im/@jemmesedi/11353573843661

    #USConservatism #LeoStrauss #WestCoastStruassianism #EastCoastStraussianism

    #eastcoaststraussianism #westcoaststruassianism #leostrauss #usconservatism
  5. Jonathan Emmesedi @[email protected] ·

    @crookedfootball.bsky.social

    Here's one Bloom influenced conservative writing in 2023 that " today it is the American right that most fully embodies the attitudes that so alarmed Mr. Bloom."

    nytimes.com/2023/11/06/opinion

    In part, the horror at Trump's "nihilism" expressed in this piece reflects a split amongst followers of Leo Strauss, with "West Coast" Straussians being fully on board with Trump, while "East Coast" - "Chicago" would be a more accurate designation - Straussians like this author tending towards something between political quietism and chastened neoconservatism.

    I am not a conservative, still less a Straussian, but I have found that one can have interesting conversations with East Coasters. The West Coasters have become apologists for the worst excesses of fascism US style.

    To a scholar from the UK where Straussianism is academically insignificant, the disagreement must seem bizarre - a clash between advocates of US exceptionalism at its most virulent and people whose intellectual growth ended with the final episode of Kenneth Clark's "Civilization" - but it matters here, so just take it as a sign of how different the US is from the UK .

    I mentioned the difference between Harry Jaffa/West Coasters and Allan Bloom/East Coasters and the effect this might have on university liberal arts programs in this post here:

    c.im/@jemmesedi/11353573843661

    #USConservatism #LeoStrauss #WestCoastStruassianism #EastCoastStraussianism

    #usconservatism #leostrauss #westcoaststruassianism #eastcoaststraussianism