Thomas DiLorenzo – America’s Jacobin Ideologues lewrockwell.com

In his book America the Virtuous and in articles published on LewRockwell.com and elsewhere, Professor Claes Ryn has clearly defined what he calls the “Jacobin ideologues” in American society, otherwise known as Straussians and neocons. Since I (Thomas DiLorenzo) consider Abraham Lincoln to have been a Jacobin, and his war a Jacobin revolution, I have been a close follower of Professor Ryn’s work and its relevance to American history. I have been struck by how Professor Ryn’s definitions fit so many of today’s Lincoln idolaters like a glove. In his writing, he refers most often to Harry Jaffa and his fellow “Straussians” as the chief Jacobin ideologues and contrasts them sharply with genuine limited government conservatives.