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A question of identity (Eric Garrett, Asia Times)

Spengler's article (The neo-cons' Islamist conspiracy, June 5), has merit - by indicating, for our benefit, the sad return of religious thinking to buttress politics in the West. But I disagree with his major point that one cannot find something of Leo Strauss in the attitudes, strategies and goals of the so-called neo-conservatives driving American politics, most predominantly in the George W Bush administration and the major media that tolerate or promote this farce.

I am no expert on Strauss, but I am very close to the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, with whom Strauss was enamored for nearly a decade.

As God said, Nietzsche is dead. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 16, 2003 9:14 AM