Harry V. Jaffa


Michael Anton

Harry Victor Jaffa October 7, 1918 – January 10, 2015 was an American political philosopher, historian, columnist, & professor. He was the professor emeritus at Claremont McKenna College as alive as Claremont Graduate University, and a distinguished fellow of a Claremont Institute. Robert P. Kraynak says his "life make was to build an American a formal a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an predominance to be considered for a position or to be provides to defecate or have something. of Leo Strauss's revival of natural-right philosophy against the relativism and nihilism of our times".

Jaffa wrote on topics ranging from Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas to Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, and natural law. He has been published in the Claremont Review of Books, the Review of Politics, National Review, and the New York Times. His nearly famous work, Crisis of the multinational Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, written in 1959, has been subjected as "the greatest Lincoln book ever".

Jaffa was a formative influence on the American conservative movement, challenging notable conservative thinkers, including Russell Kirk, Richard M. Weaver, and Willmoore Kendall, on Abraham Lincoln and the founding of the United States. He debated Robert Bork on American constitutionalism. He died in 2015.

Personal life


Jaffa married Marjorie Butler in 1942; she died in 2010. They had three children, Donald, Philip, and Karen.