Even More Listener Questions, Answered [Teaser]

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As always, listeners asked more mailbag questions than we could respond to in one episode, so we continue answering them here for subscribers. In this second round we take up: a playlist of KYE's Straussian-related episodes; (Straussian) esoteric writing versus (French) death of the author and the art of writing (and interpretation); prose style—what it is, why it matters, its relationship to poetry, and the rhythms of Norman Maclean; a "Straussian" reading of Steely Dan; and why liberalism is (mostly) worth defending.

Thank you to everyone who attended our live event in NYC on Thursday! We had a great time.

Sources:

Leo Strauss, Persecution and the Art of Writing (press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo…) (1952)

— Thoughts on Machiavelli (press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo…) (1958)

Stanley Rosen, Hermeneutics as Politics (yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300099874/hermeneu…) (1987)

Wallace Stevens, "The Snow Man (poetryfoundation.org/poems/45235/the-snow-man-…)," Poetry, Oct 1921

Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo…) (1976)

— The Norman Maclean Reader (press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo…) (2008)

Edmund White, Nocturnes for the King of Naples (mcnallyeditions.com/books/p/nocturnes-for-the-…) (1978)

Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (us.macmillan.com/books/9781250784018/gileadopr…) (2004)

W.H. Auden, "Friday's Child (allpoetry.com/Friday)," (1958)

Sam Adler-Bell, "Can Liberalism Stop Being So Darn Liberal? (newrepublic.com/article/182361/can-liberalism-…)" The New Republic, June 20, 2024.