Chicken joke: Leo Strauss

27Jun09

Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Leo Strauss: This is just another instance of the chaos wrought by modern man’s permissive egalitarianism. The ancients tell us that the road was made by and for free men, not for collectivized domestic fowl. Today we are faced with a tyranny of ‘technology’ and ‘the conquest […]

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Chicken joke: Hartz

28Apr09

Louis Hartz (1919-1986) was an American political scientist and author of The Liberal Tradition in America (1955). Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Hartz: Because everyone in America agreed that it had the right to do so.

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