The editors of Leisure with Dignity, celebrating their teacher Charles Kesler, open with a brief archeology of the Claremont Graduate University (CGU) and of the Claremont Institute. Founded in 1925, CGU came into its own in the late 1960s with the arrival of Leo Strauss, who, together with his students Harry V. Jaffa, Martin Diamond, and Harry Neumann, brought forth the brilliant first generation of “Claremonsters.” This brief Golden Age, which produced such luminaries as Tom West, as well as the late Michael Uhlmann and Angelo Codevilla, came to an end when Strauss left Claremont for St. John’s College in 1969 and Jaffa and Diamond acrimoniously fell out. In due course, the graduate school entered its Silver Age, which saw the founding of the Claremont Institute in 1979 by Larry Arnn, my old graduate school pal Ken Masugi, the late Peter Schramm and Tom Silver, and other Jaffa students, primarily to “preach and perpetuate the Old Man’s teaching.” The Institute would later become the center of “West Coast Straussianism,” to distinguish it from the more politically aloof “East Coast” variety. Jaffa continued to preside energetically over this rollicking group of Claremonsters for the next decade, when he was forced to retire from the university—though it was not much of a retirement; he merely moved his office over to the Claremont Institute and