A Chilling Prediction by Leo Strauss

A Chilling Prediction by Leo Strauss

Leo Strauss (Photo via Wikimedia Commons.)We are reproducing below excerpts from a lecture given by Leo Strauss in 1941 at the New School for Social Research on “German Nihilism.” Strauss, a German Jew, was at that time a refugee from Hitler’s Europe; he would go on to become one of the most important teachers and interpreters of philosophy at, among other places, the University of Chicago.The reproduced excerpt is chilling because it seems to d…