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'''Leo Strauss''' is a German-born philosopher.  Raised as an [[Orthodox Jew]], but became an [[atheist]] later in life.  He fled to the [[United States]] when the [[Nazi]] party came into power, and became a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.  He specialized in the study of classical political philosophy, such as the philosophy of [[Plato]], [[Aristotle]], [[Niccolò Machiavelli]], [[Thomas Hobbes]], [[Baruch Spinoza]] and [[Friedrich Nietzsche]].
 
'''Leo Strauss''' is a German-born philosopher.  Raised as an [[Orthodox Jew]], but became an [[atheist]] later in life.  He fled to the [[United States]] when the [[Nazi]] party came into power, and became a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.  He specialized in the study of classical political philosophy, such as the philosophy of [[Plato]], [[Aristotle]], [[Niccolò Machiavelli]], [[Thomas Hobbes]], [[Baruch Spinoza]] and [[Friedrich Nietzsche]].
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Some of Leo Strauss' students include Supreme Court Justice [[Clarence Thomas]], Supreme Court nominee [[Robert Bork]], former Deputy Secretary of Defense [[Paul Wolfowitz]], former Assistant Secretary of State [[Alan Keyes]], former Secretary of Education [[William Bennett]], Weekly Standard editor [[William Kristol]], political philosopher [[Allan Bloom]], former New York Post editorials editor [[John Podhoretz]], former National Endowment for the Humanities Deputy Chairman [[John T. Agresto]]; speech-writer for [[Barry Goldwater]], Harry V. Jaff; former [[FrontPage Magazine]] editor, Robert Locke.  Followers of Leo Strauss usually call themself Straussians, and it is said that they network in academia and in Washington and find one another jobs.
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Some of Leo Strauss' students include Supreme Court Justice [[Clarence Thomas]], Supreme Court nominee [[Robert Bork]], former Deputy Secretary of Defense [[Paul Wolfowitz]], former Assistant Secretary of State [[Alan Keyes]], former Secretary of Education [[William Bennett]], Weekly Standard editor [[William Kristol]], political philosopher [[Allan Bloom]], former New York Post editorials editor [[John Podhoretz]], former National Endowment for the Humanities Deputy Chairman [[John T. Agresto]]; speech-writer for [[Barry Goldwater]], Harry V. Jaff; former [[FrontPage Magazine]] editor, Robert Locke.  Followers of Leo Strauss usually call themselves Straussians, and it is said that they network in academia and in Washington and find one another jobs.
    
Leo Strauss was a vigorous anti-globalist, writing in his book ''Natural Right and History'', that "no human being and no group of human beings can rule the whole of the human race justly."
 
Leo Strauss was a vigorous anti-globalist, writing in his book ''Natural Right and History'', that "no human being and no group of human beings can rule the whole of the human race justly."
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