WELL: I have no idea how my housemates can do the getting-up-early-in-the-morning thing. Totally insane. I'm up this early in the morning because I had to put finishing touches on my (slightly overdue) paper on Leo Strauss and Richard Tuck for my history seminar. Boy, that Leo Strauss: even with Lenin, I can get the upshot of what he's saying on the first read. I'll also observe that I was seeking (in Natural Right and History) to find something he said that was just ridiculously unclear, I was actually pretty unsuccessful: his individual sentences all make sense: it isn't until you get up to the page level that it all becomes gibberish.
I've also composed half a poem in his honor, but I'll spare y'all from that here.
Oh, and if you want a slightly less deeply biased view of Strauss (with whom I actually agree pretty substantially on some things), you can check out the answer to question #13 here.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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