One of the things mentioned was the Walgreen Lecture series at the University of Chicago (which, in addition to Strauss, hosted Eric Voegelin, Hannah Arendt, George Kennan, and Carl Sandburg). Here’s some fascinating history of their origin: chicagoreader.com/news-politic...
The drugstore magnate gripped the country with his charges of ”Communistic influences” at the University of Chicago in the 1930s.
