Segregation, Aggression, and Executive Power: Leo Strauss and ‘the Boys’
Segregation, Aggression, and Executive Power: Leo Strauss and ‘the Boys’
This chapter focuses on Robert Goldwin, an American Straussian who became an important conduit for Strauss’s ideas—or, at least, certain versions of them—to power-holders within the U.S. government. When Goldwin became the head of the Public Affairs Conference Center, he took on Strauss as a paid strategic advisor. Goldwin, like some others among Strauss’s students, would later extol extreme centralism or authoritarianism: “executive power” or “prerogative.” Indeed, upholding the equal rights of each citizen is the core of modern political thought or liberalism to which Strauss objected. Ultimately, Goldwin played a powerful role in the rise of the modern Republican Party.
Keywords: Robert Goldwin, Straussianism, centralism, authoritarianism, executive power, equal rights, liberalism, Republican Party
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