O iluminismo neoconservador

E que infecta há décadas a política externa americana.

"Straussians focus on those who invent regimes because they wish to present the construction of government as an open-ended, rationalist process. All children of the Enlightenment, once properly instructed, should be able to carry out this constructivist task, given enough support from the American government or American military. The last thing Straussians would ever say (or care to have said) is that successful constitutional orders are the expressions of already formed nations and cultures."

Paul Gottfried em "Leo Strauss and The Conservative Movement in America - a Critical Appraisal", Cambridge University Press