During the four-hour memorial for Charlie Kirk at Arizona’s State Farm Stadium, Vice President JD Vance declared that the assassinated right-wing influencer was “Athens and Jerusalem”. Mentioning the two cities, representing reason and religion, was a nod to an important right-wing authority – Leo Strauss. Leo Strauss, a political philosopher who spoke of Athens and Jerusalem as the two poles of Western thought, has influenced generations of American conservatives. His disciples include the “godfather of neoconservatism”, Irving Kristol, the sitting Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, and the Nietzschean provocateur Costin Vlad Alamariu (“Bronze Age Pervert”). From Reaganite grandees to the...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
