But the (Strauss's) book is a celebration of nature — not the natural rights
of man (as the appearance of the book would lead one to believe) but the
natural order of domination and subordination.
As a crude measure of his importance for those readers who continue to
believe that philosophical matters are of no practical importance, consider
the following list of his [Strauss's] students or students of his students:
Justice Clarence Thomas; Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork; Deputy Defense
Secretary Paul Wolfowitz; former Assistant Secretary of State Alan Keyes;
former Secretary of Education William Bennett; Weekly Standard editor and
former Quayle Chief of Staff William Kristol; Allan Bloom, author of The
Closing of the American Mind; former New York Post editorials editor John
Podhoretz; former National Endowment for the Humanities Deputy Chairman John
T. Agresto; and, not meaning to class myself with this august company but in
the interests of full disclosure, myself [i.e., Robert Locke].
TOM'S TALES