Jeet Here has been writing about Wilmoore Kendall, which brings this to mind: From 2005. Whatever else he thought, Harry Jaffa was an American at his core...
I noticed that Kendall used the term "natural right" instead of "natural rightS" when describing the DoI. That seems like a very Straussian maneuver: switching from a very Protestant John Locke to a very Catholic doctrine which has very different implications.
I noticed that Kendall used the term "natural right" instead of "natural rightS" when describing the DoI. That seems like a very Straussian maneuver: switching from a very Protestant John Locke to a very Catholic doctrine which has very different implications.
It's always been about rights: the right to enslave, the right to kill, the right to steal, and lately, the right to infect.