Reply #51: The Neo-Con Godfather, Leo Strauss

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Leo Strauss was born in Germany in 1899. Since coming to the United States in 1938 he has been professor of political science and philosophy at the New School for Social Research and professor of political science at the University of Chicago. In 1954-55 he was visiting professor of philosophy and political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Chalabi:
Chalabi is the scion of a prominent Shi'a family, one of the wealthy power elite of Baghdad, where he was born. Chalabi left Iraq with his family in 1956 or 1958 and mostly lived in the U.S. and United Kingdom. In 1969, he received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago (dissertation title: The Jacobson Radical of a Group Ring), after which he took a position in the mathematics department at the American University of Beirut.

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