Round 16: Tossup 19

For an article in The Point, Baskin and Berg identified a leftist strategy named for this thinker that selectively filters public critique of allied views. Adam Curtis’s The Power of Nightmares parallels the thought of Sayyid Qutb (“KOO-tib”) and this thinker, who used Perry Mason to explain his ideas. This student of Ernst Cassirer developed a method of esoteric reading that posits writers (10[1])concealed (10[1])radical (10[1])ideas (10[1])under (10[1])orthodox (10[1])surfaces (-5[1])to avoid punishment. This commentator on Maimonides (10[1])claimed that Machiavelli initiated (10[1])a break with antiquity (10[1])by (-5[1])founding (-5[1])a politics oriented toward power. This author of Natural Right and History and Persecution (10[1])and the Art of Writing taught at an institution where he influenced Allan Bloom and Irving Kristol. For 10 points, name this German-American philosopher at the University of Chicago (-5[1])who taught many neoconservatives. (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[13])

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