“At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There is a remarkable sentence of Pascal according to which we know too little to be dogmatists and too much to be… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
“There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“[T]hough in all practical matters it is indispensable, either always or mostly, to follow custom, to do what is generally done, in… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image