Why would the NY Times invite an actual Aristotle scholar to review a new edition of the "Nicomachean Ethics"...

...when it can get a card-carrying member of the Strauss cult to do it?  As one would expect, it's all pretense and bluster, without any serious engagement with the philosophical issues raised by Aristotle.  The best "the less they know, the less they know it" line from the review:  "Unfortunately, what has been called philosophy for more than a century has virtually destroyed any belief in the possibility of objective truth, and with it the possibility of philosophy."

UPDATE:  A philosophy graduate student writes:  "Perhaps it's worth pointing out on your recent post regarding Jaffa's review of Collins & Bartlett that the translation is by two Straussians, presumably for exclusively Straussian consumption. It's dishonest of Jaffa not to mention the scholarly context. After all, one of the most important tasks of a reviewer of such a book is to explain why a new translation now when there are a number of celebrated equivalents that have come out in the last twelve years (Irwin, 2nd edition, 1999; Crisp, 2000; Broadie/Rowe, 2002)."

ANOTHER:  Alan Gilbert (Denver) comments.