Robert Locke is an American conservative columnist, he's an admirer of Leo Strauss, a conservative scholar, and German-American political philosopher and classicist, who specialized in which type of philosophy?
classical political
Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss ( ; ] ; September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was a German-American political philosopher and classicist who specialized in classical political philosophy.
 He was born in Germany to Jewish parents and later emigrated from Germany to the United States.
 He spent most of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published fifteen books.
Robert Locke
Robert Locke is an American conservative columnist.
 Locke has attended both Columbia University and University of Chicago.
 He is critical of liberals, libertarians, and some "compassionate conservatives", including George W. Bush.
 He is an admirer of conservative scholar Leo Strauss, architect Robert A.M. Stern, and photorealist painter Richard Estes.
 He was a columnist in "FrontPage Magazine" until February 2003.
Harry V. Jaffa
Harry Victor Jaffa (October 7, 1918 – January 10, 2015) was an American political philosopher, historian, columnist and professor.
 He was the Professor Emeritus at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University and a distinguished fellow of the Claremont Institute.
 Robert P. Kraynak says his "life work was to develop an American application of Leo Strauss's revival of natural-right philosophy against the relativism and nihilism of our times." Allan Bloom
Allan David Bloom (September 14, 1930 – October 7, 1992) was an American philosopher, classicist, and academician.
 He studied under David Grene, Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon, and Alexandre Kojève.
 He subsequently taught at Cornell University, the University of Toronto, Yale University, École Normale Supérieure of Paris, and the University of Chicago.
 Bloom championed the idea of Great Books education and became famous for his criticism of contemporary American higher education, with his views being expressed in his bestselling 1987 book, "The Closing of the American Mind".
 Characterized as a conservative in the popular media, Bloom denied that he was a conservative, and asserted that what he sought to defend was the 'theoretical life'.
 Saul Bellow wrote "Ravelstein", a roman à clef based on Bloom, his friend and colleague at the University of Chicago. Jeff Gannon
James Dale Guckert (born May 22, 1957) is an American conservative columnist better known by the pseudonym Jeff Gannon.
 Between 2003 and 2005, he was given credentials as a White House reporter.
 He was eventually employed by the conservative website "Talon News" during the latter part of this period.
 Gannon first gained national attention during a presidential press conference on January 26, 2005, when he asked United States President George W. Bush a question that some in the press corps considered "so friendly it might have been planted" ("How are you going to work with [Senate Democratic leaders] who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?")
. Robert P. George
Robert Peter George (born July 10, 1955) is an American legal scholar, political philosopher, and public intellectual who serves as the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University.
 He lectures on constitutional interpretation, civil liberties, philosophy of law, and political philosophy.
 George, a Roman Catholic, is considered one of the country's leading conservative intellectuals. Laurence Lampert
Laurence Lampert (born 1941) is a Canadian philosopher and a leading scholar in the field of Nietzsche studies.
 He is also well known for his interpretation of the German-American political philosopher, Leo Strauss. Robert Locke (disambiguation)
Robert Locke is an editor and American conservative. History of Political Philosophy
History of Political Philosophy is a textbook edited by American political philosophers Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey.
 This book is intended primarily to introduce undergraduate students of political science to political philosophy.
 It is currently in its third edition. Stephen Balch
Stephen H. Balch is an American conservative scholar and higher education reformer.
 He was the founding president of the National Association of Scholars from 1987 to 2009.