As was the case in 2016, a considerable amount of our critical reflection will be influenced by the legacy of Leo
Strauss (1899-1973), by the ideas he
proposed regarding political philosophy, Jewish studies, and Islamic
studies. We shall ponder how those ideas
were transformed into domestic and
foreign polices during the two terms President Obama served in office and how
they may be further twisted, with Machiavellian zeal, as the Trump administration
struggles with odd phenomena : dread, fear, terrorism, and the fallacy of
greatness; the ecology of the ego; the denial of climate change, the increase of
mental health and drug addiction problems,
the irreversible widening of the gap
between wealth and poverty in our nation. We shall weigh the pragmatic desire to toss faith, hope and charity into a
black hole , to use the white nose to
smell out false news, and to cultivate abject disregard for the sanctity of
human life. All that matters in 2017 is
one's ability to persuade others that fake lies are true facts.
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