'No more heroes'

Essays: 'No more heroes' by Edward Skidelsky | Prospect Magazine March 2006 issue 120: "'Mark you this, you proud men of action,' wrote the German poet Heinrich Heine. 'You are nothing but the unconscious henchmen of intellectuals, who, often in the humblest seclusion, have meticulously plotted your every deed.' Heine was thinking of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, but the same charge has more recently been levelled against Leo Strauss, a former professor of political science at the University of Chicago who died in 1973."