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On Three Waves

Machiavelli/Hobbes/Rousseau

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Richard L. Johnson
Jan 18, 2022
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Just as the banqueteers are drunk from wine, the citizens are drunk from fears, hopes, desires, and aversions and are therefore in need of being ruled by a man who is sober. - Leo Strauss

Leo Strauss was one of the most important historians of political philosophy in the 20th century.  A Jewish emigre to America in the 1930s, Strauss made his name as an …

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