Here is a copy of page 100 and 101 of Cloaked in Virtue. I have provided a link to a copy that can be enlarged for easier reading :

https://goo.gl/WzYPNu

In this page and a half Xenos describes the Straussian method used in the interpretation of Spinoza’s Treatise and  Xenophon’s Hiero. But here is a description of the Straussian Method that applies to the whole of Strauss’ interpretive endeavors:

See this methodology, described by Mr. Xenos, used by two prominent Neo-Conservative thinkers/technocrats:

First, Mr. Fukuyama in this essay: ‘The Decay of American Political Institutions’, I’m sorry to say is no longer available. A Google search provides a link that doesn’t work! In place of that, here is a link to my January 5, 2014 comment that provides some quotations from the essay and my replies:

https://stephenkmacksd.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/my-current-project-excerpt-from-a-reply-to-francis-fukuyamas-essay-the-decay-of-american-political-institutions-by-political-observer/

Second, Robert Kagan’s ‘Superpowers Don’t Get to Retire’:

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117859/allure-normalcy-what-america-still-owes-world

Here are links to the…