Deutsch - Leo Strauss, The Straussians, and the Study of the American Regime

George Anastaplo is Professor of Law at Loyola University of Chicago, Lecturer in the Liberal Arts at the University of Chicago, and Professor Emeritus of Political Science and of Philosophy, Dominican University. His most recent books are The Thinker as Artist: From Homer to Plato & Aristotle , Abraham Lincoln: A Constitutional Biography, and Liberty, Equality, and Modern Constitutionalism:A Source Book.The most recent addition to his exploration series is the 350-page Law & Literature and the Bible: Explorations, 23 Oklahoma City University Law Review (1998).

Hadley Arkes is the Edward Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions at Amherst College. He has written numerous articles and five books, among which are First Things, Beyond the Constitution, and The Return of George Sutherland. He has been a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is a contributing editor to National Review and a monthly columnist for Crisis magazine. He is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Commentary.

Larry Arnhart is Professor of Political Science at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of numerous articles in political philosophy and American government as well as Aristotle on Political Reasoning:A Commentary on the Rhetoric, Political Questions: Political Philosophy from Plato to Rawls, and most recently Danvinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature.

Laurence Berns has been teaching at St. Johns College, Annapolis, since 1960. His writings include Gratitude, Nature and Piety in King Lear ( Interpretation, Autumn 1972); The Relation Between Philosophy and Religion: Reflections on Leo Strausss Suggestions Concerning the Source and Sources of Modern Philosophy ( Interpretation, Fall 1991); Aristotle and Adam Smith on Justice: Cooperation Between Ancients and Moderns? ( Review of Metaphysics, September 1994); Our Political Situation: Good Government, Self-government and American Democracy, The Great Ideas Today (1997). He is completing a literal translation of Aristotles Politics.

Mark Blitz is Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy and Director of Research at Claremont McKenna College. He has served as Associate Director of the United States Information Agency and as a Senior Professional Staff Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He has been Vice President and Director of Political and Social Studies at the Hudson Institute. He is the author of Heideggers Being and Time and the Possibility of Political Philosophy and of numerous articles in political philosophy, American politics, and foreign affairs.

Aryeh Botwinick is Professor of Political Science at Temple University. He is the author of Skepticism and Political Participation, Power and Empowerment: A Radical Theory of Participatory Democracy (with Peter Bachrach), and Postmodernism and Democratic Theory. His most recent book is Skepticism, Belief, and the Modern: Maimonides to Nietzsche. He is currently working on two book-length projects: Michael Oakeshott: Theory, Contingency, and the Political and Emmanuel Levinas: Reconceiving the Western Political Tradition.

Eva Brann has been a tutor at St. Johns College, Annapolis, since 1957 and was Dean from 1990 to 1997. Her books are Late Geometric and Proattic Pottery from the Atheniae Agora, Paradoxes of Education in a Republic, The World of the Imagination, The Past-Present and What, Then, Is Time? She has published articles on Platos Republic, Thomas Jefferson, and Jane Austen among others. She is co-translator of Platos Sophist and Phaedo and the translator of Jacob Kleins Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.

Christopher A. Colmo is Associate Professor of Political Science at Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois. His most recent publication is Alfarabi on the Prudence of Founders in the Review of Politics.

Joseph Cropsey is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Among his publications are Polity and Economy: An Interpretation of the Principles of Adam Smith, Political Philosophy and the Issues of Politics, co-editor History of Political Philosophy (with Leo Strauss), and Platos World: Mans Place in the Cosmos.

Kenneth L. Deutsch is Professor of Political Science at SUNY Geneseo. He has published five books, Political Obligation and Civil Disobedience, Constitutional Rights, Modern Indian Political Thought, The Crisis of Liberal Democracy: A Straussian Perspective, and Leo Strauss: Political Philosopher and Jewish Thinker. He is presently working on a book dealing with German-Jewish refugees during World War II and their relationship to the American political experience.

Robert Eden is Professor of Political Science at Hillsdale College. His work includes Political Leadership and Nihilism: A Study of Weber and Nietzsche and articles on Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Dewey, Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, Tocqueville, and Montaigne. His translation of De Gaulles first book, The Enemys House Divided, is forthcoming from University of North Carolina Press.

Murray Dry is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College, where he teaches political philosophy, American constitutional law, and American political thought. His publications include contributions to books and articles on the American Founding, federalism, and freedom of speech. He is currently working on a book on the First Amendment freedoms in political philosophy and American constitutional law.

Miriam Galston has a B.A. from Cornell University, a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and a J.D. from the Yale Law School. She is an Associate Professor at the George Washington University Law School, where she teaches corporations, bankruptcy, legal theory, and nonprofits. She has written in the areas of ancient and medieval political thought, tax policy, and legal theory. Ralph Lerner is responsible for her interest in ancient and medieval political thought and her commitment to teaching.

William A. Galston is Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, and Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy. From 1993 to 1995 he served as Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Domestic Policy. He is the author or editor of six books and numerous articles on political philosophy, American politics, and public policy. His recent publications include Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State;Justice and the Human Good; and Two Concepts of Liberalism, and Political Economy and the Politics ofVirtue: US Public: Philosophy at Centurys End.

Gary D. Glenn has been a teacher of political philosophy and American political thought at Northern Illinois University since 1966. His publications include Inalienable Rights and Lockes Argument for Limited Government,Forgotten Purposes of the First Amendment Religion Clauses,Cyrus Corruption of Aristocracy, Speculations on Strauss Political Intentions suggested by On Tyranny, and Partisanship and Neutrality in Teaching American Government: The Case of the Post-Behavioral Era.

Harry V.Jaffa is the Henry Salvatori Research Professor of Political Philosophy Emeritus at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate School. He is the author of numerous articles, and ten books, including his trail-blazing Crisis of the House Divided. His most recent book, Storm Over the Constitution (Rowman & Littlefield), is forthcoming. Also soon to be published is the first volume why the War Came of his much anticipated A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War.