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Anne Norton

Anne Norton, Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, is author of Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire.

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The revolutionary theorist sought not liberal stability but democratic adventure.

Anne Norton

Forum Responses

One word that does not appear in Mohammad Fadel’s essay is “class.” For many of those Fadel describes as “liberal and radical critics of the Muslim Brotherhood” the problem is not simply...
Anne Norton
Martha Nussbaum begins and ends her essay with stories of marriage. In the first, a woman is seduced by nationalism — and a nationalist — only to recognize that she ought more...
Anne Norton

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