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Kenneth B. McIntyre

Oakeshott vs. America

Why politics needs practical reason, not written constitutions

February 26, 2013

Kenneth B. McIntyre

The Right’s False Prophet

Though dismissed by historians and philosophers, Leo Strauss has had an outsized influence on the conservative movement.

May 9, 2012

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