This time in the Chicago Reader.  An interesting piece, though the reporter, Ms. Englander, who was a pleasant woman, seems to have misunderstood my main points, and also misquoted me in a rather significant way.  I submitted the following comment:

I am misquoted in this article, as I have alerted Ms. Englander. I most
certainly did not describe Straussianism as "a pathology of American
philosophy departments," since it does not exist in any leading
American philosophy department. Strauss was not, contrary to the
article’s heading, a "professor of philosophy," but a professor of
political science, and the Straussian pathology and its attendant cult,
which I discussed with Ms. Englander, operates exclusively in some
American political science departments. Actual philosophers view
Strauss exactly as I and Burnyeat describe.

Strauss may indeed
have "many critics who persist in connecting him to all that’s wrong
with American policy," but I am not one of them, as I made clear to Ms.
Englander. It strikes me as rather silly to attribute the venal
criminality of the Bush Administration to a not very good scholar of
the history of philosophy. Unfortunately, this article, while
informative and interesting, tends to contribute to the misapprehension
that Leo Strauss and his acolytes know anything about philosophy or the
"philosophical life." The more interesting question is the sociological
one of how this particular pseudo-scholarly cult has enjoyed such
staying power in U.S. political science departments.

Ironically, Straussianism is largely a dead issue in Hyde Park (Professor Tarcov being its last representative), having migrated instead to UT Austin’s political science department!