
Frankly Fukuyama Damon Linker on Leo Strauss, Glory, and Gender
Jan 9, 2026
47:24
Damon Linker is a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Pennsylvania and writes the subscription newsletter “Notes from the Middleground” at Substack. He discusses divisions among Straussians, why an internal longing for glory drives so much of the right and why gender remains such a divisive topic.
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