The utility of Leo Strauss

The latest issue of The Catholic Social Science Review, the one that featured a debate between Thomas Storck and Thomas Woods, also features a symposium, "The Ancients/Moderns Distinction: Catholic Perspectives." Here is the introduction by Kenneth Grasso. I tend to be among those who reject Strauss's intellectual history, but there have been quite a few Catholics who have been influenced by Strauss and his disciples, including Fr. Ernest Fortin and C.N.R. McCoy.