Harry V. Jaffa is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Political Philosophy Emeritus at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University, a distinguished fellow of the Claremont Institute, and the author of ten books.

Among Straussian publications on American politics (to say nothing of non-Straussian), none excels Harry Jaffa’s masterpiece, A New Birth of Freedom. In Crisis of the Strauss Divided, Jaffa explains to his critics why a defense of Lincoln and the Founders is, paradoxically, consistent with political philosophy — which many equate with an apolitical interpretation of Great Books. Political philosophy means nothing without a lively concern with the problems of life here and now.

• IntroductionPrefaceChapter 1: Straussian Geography: A Memoir and CommentaryChapter 2: Leo Strauss RememberedChapter 3: Political Philosophy and Honor: The Leo Strauss Dissertation AwardChapter 4: The Legacy of Leo Strauss: Review of Studies in Platonic Political PhilosophyChapter 5: The Platonism of Leo Strauss: A Reply to Harry JaffaChapter 6: “The Legacy of Leo Strauss” DefendedChapter 7: The Politics of Moderation: Strauss’s EsotericismChapter 8: Leo Strauss’s Churchillian Speech and the Question of the Decline of the WestChapter 9: Response to M.F. Burnyeat’s “Sphinx Without a Secret,” A Review of Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy in the New York Review of BooksChapter 10: “Dear Professor Drury”Chapter 11: Crisis of the Strauss Divided: The Legacy ReconsideredChapter 12: Leo Strauss, the Bible, and Political PhilosophyChapter 13: A Letter to the Editor of the New York Review of Books, 1992Chapter 14: “Relativism”Chapter 15: Strauss at 100Chapter 16: Moral Order i

Harry V. Jaffa is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Political Philosophy Emeritus at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University, a distinguished fellow of the Claremont Institute, and the author of ten books.

Among Straussian publications on American politics (to say nothing of non-Straussian), none excels Harry Jaffa’s masterpiece, A New Birth of Freedom. In Crisis of the Strauss Divided, Jaffa explains to his critics why a defense of Lincoln and the Founders is, paradoxically, consistent with political philosophy — which many equate with an apolitical interpretation of Great Books. Political philosophy means nothing without a lively concern with the problems of life here and now.

• IntroductionPrefaceChapter 1: Straussian Geography: A Memoir and CommentaryChapter 2: Leo Strauss RememberedChapter 3: Political Philosophy and Honor: The Leo Strauss Dissertation AwardChapter 4: The Legacy of Leo Strauss: Review of Studies in Platonic Political PhilosophyChapter 5: The Platonism of Leo Strauss: A Reply to Harry JaffaChapter 6: “The Legacy of Leo Strauss” DefendedChapter 7: The Politics of Moderation: Strauss’s EsotericismChapter 8: Leo Strauss’s Churchillian Speech and the Question of the Decline of the WestChapter 9: Response to M.F. Burnyeat’s “Sphinx Without a Secret,” A Review of Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy in the New York Review of BooksChapter 10: “Dear Professor Drury”Chapter 11: Crisis of the Strauss Divided: The Legacy ReconsideredChapter 12: Leo Strauss, the Bible, and Political PhilosophyChapter 13: A Letter to the Editor of the New York Review of Books, 1992Chapter 14: “Relativism”Chapter 15: Strauss at 100Chapter 16: Moral Order i

Harry V. Jaffa is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Political Philosophy Emeritus at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University, a distinguished fellow of the Claremont Institute, and the author of ten books.

Among Straussian publications on American politics (to say nothing of non-Straussian), none excels Harry Jaffa’s masterpiece, A New Birth of Freedom. In Crisis of the Strauss Divided, Jaffa explains to his critics why a defense of Lincoln and the Founders is, paradoxically, consistent with political philosophy — which many equate with an apolitical interpretation of Great Books. Political philosophy means nothing without a lively concern with the problems of life here and now.

• IntroductionPrefaceChapter 1: Straussian Geography: A Memoir and CommentaryChapter 2: Leo Strauss RememberedChapter 3: Political Philosophy and Honor: The Leo Strauss Dissertation AwardChapter 4: The Legacy of Leo Strauss: Review of Studies in Platonic Political PhilosophyChapter 5: The Platonism of Leo Strauss: A Reply to Harry JaffaChapter 6: “The Legacy of Leo Strauss” DefendedChapter 7: The Politics of Moderation: Strauss’s EsotericismChapter 8: Leo Strauss’s Churchillian Speech and the Question of the Decline of the WestChapter 9: Response to M.F. Burnyeat’s “Sphinx Without a Secret,” A Review of Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy in the New York Review of BooksChapter 10: “Dear Professor Drury”Chapter 11: Crisis of the Strauss Divided: The Legacy ReconsideredChapter 12: Leo Strauss, the Bible, and Political PhilosophyChapter 13: A Letter to the Editor of the New York Review of Books, 1992Chapter 14: “Relativism”Chapter 15: Strauss at 100Chapter 16: Moral Order i