The deep-state cult of Leo Strauss

Have you ever noticed that there seems to be something shadowy at the heart of American conservatism? A secret club that has infiltrated Ivy League lecture halls and the corridors of government, that meets on private islands and the smoky rooms above Manhattan restaurants to discuss the coups d’état and the apocalypse over a nice glass of claret. The conspiracy-theorizing wing of the US media has offered plenty of possible explanations about what this shadowy entity might be over the years: Skull and Bones, Bohemian Grove, the Council for National Policy — or perhaps even “Dialog”, the secret club founded by Peter Thiel and Auren Hoffman that was recently exposed by a Swiss hacker. But those who have really done their research, who have brushed shoulders with high-ranking government offici