The commander

In the issue of the Weekly Standard out this morning, Peter Berkowitz writes what I hope is a postscript to the journalistic tempest about the alleged posthumous influence of Leo Strauss: “What hath Strauss wrought?” But the standout piece is Fred Barnes’s portrait of General Franks: “The Commander.”

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