Reading between the lines – Leo Strauss and the history of ...
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Textual interpreters must thus take care not just to look for evidence which fits our expectations. This applies to Strauss''s critics too. Consider Masoud Bonyanian''s attempt to show that Strauss influenced American neoconservatives in the Bush administration: according to Bonyanian, these neoconservatives lied about why they waged war with Iraq because Strauss had argued that politicians may need to tell a noble lie to hide truths from the masses.102 A simple test of this claim is to ...