The Lion By John Ransom
Leo Strauss once observed that German political philosophy created a “tradition of contempt for common sense and the aims of human life.”
Such contempt, he contended, made the Nazis’ rise to power possible.
As an escapee from Nazi Germany, and as one of the most eminent political thinkers of his day, the University of Chicago professor understood that the urge toward nihilism that infected German thought would have long-lasting consequences.
He noted, for example, that the near twin of Nazism, Marxism, with its claim to know the future, undermines the “practical wisdom” of traditional Western values in favor of a faux modernism that attempts to make man “the highest being,” able to control history by clever maneuverings.
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