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Harry Victor Jaffa (October 7, 1918 – January 10, 2015) was an American political philosopher, historian, columnist, and professor. He was a professor emeritus at Claremont McKenna College, Claremont Graduate University, and was a distinguished fellow of the Claremont Institute.
Harry V. Jaffa. Harry Victor Jaffa was born in New York City on October 7, 1918, to Arthur and Frances Landau Jaffa. After attending Yale University and graduating with a degree in English in 1939, Jaffa entered the Federal Service in Washington, D.C.
Jan 12, 2015 · Harry V. Jaffa, who explored America’s founding in many books, but shifted modern politics with two speech lines that cast Senator Barry M. Goldwater as an extremist, abetting his landslide...
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In college, Jaffa was a Golden Gloves boxer, and he was an ardent violinist until he became a student of Leo Strauss. Physical pursuits and music were thus at the core of his life, which blended spiritedness (thumos) and longing (eros) under reason (logos). He was an ardent bicyclist until late in his life. His friend and frequent intellectual spar...
Jaffa was part of a team of scholars under the aegis of the American Enterprise Institute tasked with giving policy advice to Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign in 1964. In a memo to the campaign staff, he penned the most famous words of the campaign: “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice… moderation in the pursuit of justice is no v...
At Claremont, Jaffa undertook a change of mind that led to a delay in his planned sequel to Crisis, namely A New Birth of Freedom, which was finally completed in 2000. The first indication of that change can be seen in his How to Think about the American Revolution: A Bicentennial Cerebration(1978). Here Jaffa openly broke with many former friends ...
Jan 15, 2015 · Harry V. Jaffa, an Abraham Lincoln scholar and political philosopher who made the ideas of America’s founding fathers a cornerstone of modern conservative thought, died Saturday at Pomona...
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Jan 12, 2015 · Harry V. Jaffa, a preeminent professor of political philosophy whose views contributed to CMC's early identity as a bastion of conservatism on the West Coast, passed away last week, on January 10 at Pomona Valley Hospital. He was 96.
Harry Victor Jaffa died at the age of 96 on January 10, 2015. The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy was founded by a few of his students in 1979, and he served on the Institute’s board of directors from its inception.
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