van den Haag was a communist-turned-conservative segregationist who also got really into scientific positivism and wrote for the national review

its good to know that this specific kind of leftist has always existed (they form a pretty sizable part of Sternhell's theory of fascism, IIRC, though not Landa's)

Hello. From which book is the excerpt taken?

Ellmers "The Soul of Politics" which is a great book on Strauss + Jaffa himself and a horrid one on modern conservatism

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