{"id":4704,"date":"2005-04-21T09:40:43","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T09:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4704"},"modified":"2015-03-18T14:49:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T18:49:29","slug":"me-on-the-radio-from-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4704","title":{"rendered":"me on the radio, from down under"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People are interested right now in the &#8220;Straussians&#8221;&#8211;the somewhat cliquish followers of the late Leo Strauss, some of whom hold influential political positions in the Bush Administration. In my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterlevine.ws\/work%20in%20philosophy.htm\">Nietzsche book<\/a>, I argued that Leo Strauss was not the conservative proponent of natural law that he appeared to be on the surface; he was actually a secret Nietszchean with radical, &#8220;postmodern&#8221; beliefs. This interpretation became the basis of my novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterlevine.ws\/fiction.htm\">Something to Hide<\/a>. I&#8217;ve summarized the arguments in a previous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterlevine.ws\/mt\/archives\/000322.html\">blog<\/a>. Recently, I was interviewed on the subject for an Australian radio program. The audio file is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subfm.org\/leostrauss.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are interested right now in the &#8220;Straussians&#8221;&#8211;the somewhat cliquish followers of the late Leo Strauss, some of whom hold influential political positions in the Bush Administration. In my Nietzsche book, I argued that Leo Strauss was not the conservative proponent of natural law that he appeared to be on the surface; he was actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-and-video","category-philosophy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15015,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions\/15015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}