but i don't think that is what he means by esotericism. he definitely teaches that indefinitely tries to practice it but he also you know was very explicit about certain matters that a thinker who wanted to hide teachings that could be subject or get them subject to persecution or even to social opprobrium would not hide. i don't think he practices esotericism but i do think he practiced restraint and the irony is that restraint sometimes can lead to other kinds of risks of irresponsible thought. that is why i said in response to the previous question that i think speaking loudly take -- for example. how did ron moaned around not gather a reputation for neoconservatism. what we would call a cold word liberal and if you look at the people in the united states these are people who are also attracted to a vision of strauss is a conservative and gets published in translation and neocon publications and so on. one of his leaving followers in france was also a student of strauss but yet it's clear that he was up cold war liberal. even though he