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Higher Education thinkers
Booker T. Washington Born into slavery, he led Tuskegee Institute and became the leading Black American voice of his era, preaching education, thrift and self-help. Leo Strauss German-born University of Chicago political philosopher who revived classical political philosophy and taught generations of American political thinkers. Richard Weaver University of Chicago English professor whose Ideas Have Consequences became a founding book of the postwar traditionalist right. Robert Nisbet Sociologist whose The Quest for Community argued that a strong state and weak intermediate institutions threaten freedom, in the line of Burke. Russell Kirk Michigan author whose 1953 book The Conservative Mind traced a tradition from Burke onward and gave postwar American conservatism its intellectual identity. Willmoore Kendall Yale political theorist and early National Review figure who defended majority rule, a society's orthodoxy and a conservative reading of the American tradition.