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Entry: Pagans are devout; Straussians not so much Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/pagans_are_devout_straussians_not_so_much#23233 Post contents: I think one of the key questions here is whether or not 'secular humanism' and modern left egalitarianism in general is a product of Judeo-Christianity and its values. If we concur with Carl Schmitt when he wrote that all modern, salient political values are, in fact, secularized religious ideas, then we need to see how much of the left really derives from the Judeo-Christian tradition. The European Right can handle these questions and can embrace Nietzsche. The American Right, with very few exceptions (Mencken was one of them), finds this a very difficult step to take. Strauss tried to replace God with, I believe, his dedication to the Zionist project. His address at Hillel House reveals this overriding concern as the central focus of all his work, esoterically concealed or not. I do not believe this kind of ethnic, chauvinist preoccupation can substitute for a transcendent understanding, or originating point of hierarchical reference and ordering, and this emptiness lies at the heart of the Straussian failure as well as at the center of the failure of the neocon project in general. Richard Sherlock's brilliant essay on Strauss ("The Secret of Straussianism") brings this crisis in Strauss and his followers to light. Sent at: 2008 11 23