Can We Handle The Truth?

On Leo Strauss and Transparency

Leo Strauss—about whom I just wrote a mega twitter thread—was concerned that the masses can’t handle the truth.

Scholars disagree about what the secret is that Strauss thought was so worth hiding. What’s so scary about the truth?

I’m inclined to think the great Straussian secret is that philosophy can’t refute nihilism and relativism, that the pillars of …