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Mark Sholdice

Mark Sholdice is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Guelph.

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Leo’s Web

A new look at Strauss’s ideas helps reveal their influence in Canada September 2015
In recent years, particularly after the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003, there has been a flourishing cottage industry in portraying political philosopher Leo Strauss as the godfather of a nefarious and multigenerational neoconser­vative conspiracy to promote the rule of strife and unreason. As an undergraduate, I first discovered this German political philosopher through a 2004 BBC documentary by filmmaker Adam Curtis entitled The Power of Nightmares