"Preliminary Observations on the Gods in Thucydides' Work," Interpretation, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Winter 1974). Reprinted in Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy.
Essays
Introductions to Morgenstunden and An die Freunde Lessings
Introductions to Morgenstunden and An die Freunde Lessings as well as Sache Gottes oder die gerettete Vorsehung, Moses Mendelssohn: Gesammelte Schriften Jubilaumsausgabe, Band 3, 1974. Reprinted in Leo Strauss: Gesammelte Schriften, Band 2.
Note on the Plan of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil
"Note on the Plan of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil," Interpretation, Vol. 3, No. 2-3 (Winter 1973). Reprinted in Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy.
Introductory Essay to Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism
"Introductory Essay," Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism, by Hermann Cohen, 1972. Reprinted in Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy.
Niccolo Machiavelli
History of Political Philosophy, ed. Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey, Rand McNally, 1963. Second Edition: Rand McNally, 1972. Third Edition, University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Philosophy as Rigorous Science and Political Philosophy
"Philosophy as Rigorous Science and Political Philosophy," Interpretation, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Summer 1971). Reprinted in Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy.
On the Euthydemus
"On the Euthydemus," Interpretation, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Summer 1970).
A Giving of Accounts
"A Giving of Accounts," with Jacob Klein, The College, Vol. 22, No. 1 (April 1970).
Machiavelli and Classical Literature
"Machiavelli and Classical Literature," Review of National Literatures, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 1970).
Greek Historians
"Greek Historians," review of Greek Historical Writing: A Historiographical Essay Based on Xenophon's "Hellenica," by W. P. Henry, Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 21, No. 4 (June 1968).