An old adage says that “the world is won by those who let it go.” Must America let go of its revolutionary mind in order to win back the American world? Are “German thoughts” the key to the American future? It’s an uncomfortable and complex problem to consider, but there’s no avoiding it. And we can’t do much better than to take three “German thinkers” as our guides through the question: Strauss, Nietzsche, and Heidegger.

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Leo Strauss once wrote: “The greatest literature of the past has so many interesting devils, madmen, beggars, sophists, drunkards, Epicureans, and buffoons.” The tarot has its version: the Fool (0), the Hermit (IX), the Hanged Man (XII), the Devil (XV).

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