It didn't sound like philosophy to me, I always assumed that Strauss was politics rather than philosophy.

Are we all going to sit here handing it off between disciplines so we don't take the blame for that one.

Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.

First, ---Coleman, It's in fun. At least partly. Like Doug Adams? Jeez.

Does Strauss sounds like philosophy?

If Strauss is a brilliant political philosopher to the pistol wavers in the empire, a nazi propagandist and panderer (more my view) --or a cartoon artist for Le Monde, does that mean Dr. Shadia Drury has wasted her life stdying his work?
On another level, much if not most of economics is indeed pop economics. That's an essential, high demand market. Not to say it's all BS at all. As you imply, I am not competent to make that statement--even if I would. But a lot of what justifies our economic world vision is pure horse hocky. Few here would disagree with that, I think.
The most powerful lies are the ones that contain a good measure of truth.
Strauss is in exactly the same business as Milton Friedman, and his influence is profound and pernicious in all our lives.

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Disastrous mistake #1: Thinking that to label something is to understand it.
 

"There is mysterious music in democracy, when people decide to believe in themselves." ---Bill Greider, The Nation.

Pop economics as opposed to what? The very sensible academic economics of rationality and utility?

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