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Author: Geoffrey Vaughan (Geoffrey Vaughan)

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August 3, 2022September 5, 2022Leo Strauss, Natural Rights, Politics, Who's Who

Harry V. Jaffa and Allan Bloom: The Contested Legacy of Leo Strauss

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Harry Jaffa and Allan Bloom represent two ways of understanding the political philosophy of Leo Strauss, particularly in relation to the concept of classical natural right. The creative tension between Jaffa and Bloom, as well as their respective students, has produced some of the finest scholarship of the last half century or more.

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November 29, 2018November 28, 2018Constitutional Law

Who Wants to Limit the Power of the Courts?

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Perhaps the real source of liberal anxiety is not simply that a conservative-dominated Supreme Court will become activist in the opposite direction. Rather, a more far-reaching consequence for the American left would be a repositioning of the judicial branch as equal—not superior—to the legislative branch.

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