Comments on: Update on CBC on Qutb & Strauss

By: ThePolitic - » “Nightmares”: Final Installment

ThePolitic - » “Nightmares”: Final Installment — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 04:22:47 +0000

[...] broadcast on Tuesday night. I also posted comments on the Sunday broadcast of Part I (and here) and Monday’s Part II. I also posted comments connecting [...]

By: Tom Cerber

Tom Cerber — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 04:07:14 +0000

Owen: Interesting observation about Strauss. It’s hard to say what Strauss would say about the Straussians, partly because it’s hard to say what he thought of anything. I can see how you’d see how Nat Right and History would fit with leftish views. For instance, classical political philosophy entails radical questioning of tradition, which is hardly conservative. Further, his treatment of Edmund Burke would hardly make a conservative comfortable as well.

- Tom

By: ThePolitic - » More “Nightmares”: Qutb & Strauss

ThePolitic - » More “Nightmares”: Qutb & Strauss — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 03:23:53 +0000

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I’ve made 2 postings (first & second) on the CBC’s airing of “Nightmares,” which [...]

By: Owen

Owen — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:48:27 +0000

Until the recent hubbub, I had thought Strauss was a leftist. My favourite poli sci teacher at university was an ardent leftist, and a “Straussist”, and had studied under the man himself. I also read “Natural Right and History”, which I did not perceive as left or right, but which fit comfortably with my then leftish views. I do recall a respect for classical learning and a sense that truth could be apprehended. In retrospect these ideas probably are much more dangerous to the left than to the right.

Maybe if Strauss were still with us, he would be saying, vis Marx, “I am not a Straussist”.

As for the CBC program, I hope it was not that silly one I turned on last night that claimed that 1950s horror movies were really all about the red scare. It seems that for the intellectual left, conspiracy theories know no bounds.

By: ThePolitic - » The Trauma of Ideology

ThePolitic - » The Trauma of Ideology — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:49:23 +0000

[...] umentary, “Nightmares,” on the CBC over the past couple of nights (posts here, here, and here). A comment on one of my previous posts suggested th [...]

By: CIVITATENSIS » Nightmarish Ignorance

CIVITATENSIS » Nightmarish Ignorance — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 06:56:31 +0000

[...] the radical jihadist, the CBC has sunk to a whole new low, points out Tom Cerber here and here. See your tax dollars propagate ignorance.

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By: Rempelia Prime » Nightmares!

Rempelia Prime » Nightmares! — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 07:16:08 +0000

[...] ly to the very capable Tom Cerber at The Politic, who gives two reviews of part 1 here and here. They’re worth the time it will take to read and absord t [...]

By: ThePolitic - » CBC Propaganda: Leo Strauss and Sayyid Qutb

ThePolitic - » CBC Propaganda: Leo Strauss and Sayyid Qutb — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 04:21:25 +0000

[...] s, Or An Analysis of Modern Terrorism. UPDATE: I stayed up to watch the stupid program. Here are some of my impressions.

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