Brad DeLong offers the last thing you will ever need to read about the scholarship of Leo Strauss.

And, as long as I'm in linker mode, I think I should have something to say about Ashcroft asking for even broader "anti-terrorist" powers at the same time that he's being excoriated for the pointless excesses of his earlier, unconstitutional and fruitless sweeps for suspected terrorists, but I don't, so read Lisa English.