 Strauss does not mean to imply that National Socialism was inevitable. Rather he means to investigate why there was no adequate rational, moral response to the rise of National Socialism. It is here that the modern crises of philosophy and theology meet in the modern crisis of politics. Neither modern political philosophy nor theology nor philosophy had the critical resources to respond to the disintegration of the liberal state, the very political structure that was touted as “the opposite of… ‘the kingdom of darkness,’ i.e., of medieval society” (SCR, p. 3).