Ancient Greece and American Conservatism: Classical Influence on the Modern Right

Cover\nHalf-title\nTitle\nCopyright\nContents\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction\n	Methodology\n	Definitional Issues\n	Structure\n1. Plato\'s Ideas had Consequences: Greek Thought and the `New Conservatives\'\n	The Political Context\n	Weaver and the Conservative Revival\n	Other Conservative Appropriations of Greek Thought\n	Willmoore Kendall\'s McCarthyite Socrates\n	The Consequences of these Ideas\n2. Leo Strauss and the Ancients against the Moderns\n	Leo Strauss\n	Eric Voegelin\n	Strauss on Natural Right\n	Case Study: Strauss\'s Xenophon\'s Socratic Discourse: An Interpretation of the Oeconomicus\n	Back to Conservatism\n3. Rise of the Neoconservatives\n	Neoconservatism\n	Irving Kristol\n	Neoconservative Thinkers and the Avoidance of Antiquity\n	Neoconservative Thinkers and the Recourse to Antiquity\n	Straussians First, Neoconservatives Second\n4. The Classicizing of the American Mind\n	Crisis on the Campus?\n	Conservative Critiques\n	Neocons and Paleo-cons\n	William Bennett\n	Allan Bloom\n5. War and Greece\n	The Cold War\n	Conservative Perspectives\n	George W. Bush and Iraq\n	Seeing the World through Greece\n	A Neoconservative Thucydides?\n	Straussians and `Regime\'\n	Greek Ideas in Perspective\nEpilogue\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex