In this critical work on the political thought of Leo Strauss, Sean Noah Walsh addresses Leo Strauss’s claims about esotericism in the philosophic texts of Pl

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An expert on early Christianity reveals how the early church invented stories of Christian martyrs—and how this persecution myth persists today. According to