William Warford Steven F. Hayward Kennington said that Strauss taught Miracles at the New School, though haven't seen it in any course description or notes. The Screwtape Letters was of interest to him, too.

Colin Redemer

When Benardete taught this passage (the center of the Statesman) in 1967, he focused on "one should be incapable of being discountenanced [δυσωπέω*] and stopping before one confines all the family kin within a single similarity and comprehends them with the being of some genus."

Strauss's own underlinings in the manuscript (essay written June 15 - July 20, 1970).

cont'd digital recreation of Strauss red-pencil underlinings (in the manuscript) in his Apology & Crito essay.

The rest of the Apology underlinings and the beginning of the Crito part

🎥 A brilliant Montesquieu Forum lecture by Sam Zeitlin of UCL on Hitchcock's North by Northwest 🎬✨ Watch it here: youtu.be/l2-9YVLpKCs?si… 🕵️‍♂️🍿

Strauss would have recommended Allan Bloom many times of course, but on at least one occasion Bloom wrote a kind of recommendation for Strauss.

This is more vivid and charming

Harry Jaffa on Strauss and his own Lincoln project (1961): ...medieval Jewish political philosophy was the starting-point of Leo Strauss's career. I remember when I first studied with him, and heard him refer from time to time to his "teachers"--assuming that he meant the German

Strauss asked his friend Nahum Glatzer to send him Glatzer's "English Kafka" at Strauss's own expense

A function of the daimonion is to cover up the truth about Socrates’ lack of interest in someone: he does not "love" that person, i.e., he does not think he can increase his insight by being together with that person. (SPPP 47)

Strauss to Kojève (after Jaspers'History came into his hands): "a well-meaning North German Protestant pastor, full of unction [Salbung] and moral earnestness even in sexual relations, and who precisely for that reason never achieves clarity or decisiveness" (Sept 9 '49)

Checking the galley proofs for an Italian volume on Leo Strauss that will come out with Edizioni ETS this summer! Off to the printer!