WEEK 4: STRAUSS AND THE CULTURE WARS

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WEEK 4 STRAUSS AND THE CULTURE WARS
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LEO STRAUSS THE CRISIS OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY

• Strauss Life
• Strauss History The Weimar Republic
• Strauss Writing Esotericism
• Strauss Philosophy Dangerous Truths
• Dangerous Truth 1 Nietzsches Nihilism
• Dangerous Truth 2 Machiavellis Dark Arts
• Dangerous Truth 3 The Natural Right
• Strauss Political Theory Ancients and Moderns
• Platos Legacy
• Athens and Jerusalem
• The Amorality of Science
• The US as Athens
• Strauss Politics The Crisis of Liberal
  Democracy
• What are the Culture Wars?

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THE BIG QUESTION

• Do I want a take home or sit down exam?
• Who is on the cultural left (liberal
  progressives) and who is on the cultural right
  (moral conservatives) in the American culture
  wars? Consider the following
• TV stations
• Political Commentators
• Newspapers, magazines and websites
• Hollywood movies and movie stars
• Politicians

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IRVING KRISTOLS COLD WAR

• Ideological Apostasy
• The Adversary Culture
• The Three Pillars of American Society
• Kristol and Einsteins Religious Hierarchy
• Kristols Cold War as a Culture War

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FRANCIS FUKUYAMAS CULTURE WAR

• The End of History
• The Last Man and threat to liberal democracy
• The Need for New Horizons
• After the Neocons
• Strauss and International Relations Gullivers
  Travails