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On Leo Strauss's American career: Leo Strauss at the University ofChicago; Leo Strauss at St John's College; Leo Strauss at One Hundred. TakingLeo Strauss seriously: Leo Strauss, the Straussians and the American regime;Strauss on our minds; Leo Strauss - philosophy and the American socialscience; Athens and Washington - Leo Strauss and the American regime;Strauss's generalized agnosticism and American liberalism; locating LeoStrauss in the liberal-communitarian debate. The first generation: in regardsto George Anastaplo; Walter Berns - the Constitution and American liberaldemocracy; Allan Bloom -Strauss, Socrates and liberal education; JosephCropsey - modernity and the American regime; refining the founding - MartinDiamond, Leo Strauss, and the American regime; Paul Eidelberg - the mixedregime and the American regime; a new birth of freedom - Harry V. Jaffa andthe study of America; back to the future - Ralph Lerner's political thought;Roger Masters - natural right and biology; Herbert Storing -the Americanfounding and the American Constitution. American political institutions:congress and Straussian constitutionalism; executive power and thepresidency; the Supreme Court - republican schoolmaster; bureaucracy andAmerica - Leo Strauss on constitutionalism, the state and tyranny.Reflections from practice: Leo Strauss and the world of intelligence;thoughts on Strauss and our present discontents; the charm of competence - aStraussian looks at the therapeutic state; a student of Leo Strauss in theClinton Administration government and the school of Strauss.