[3] He was educated at Collège de Genève and at Oberlin College (where he played soccer, was on the fencing team, and majored in government), earning a BA in 1963.
[7] Considered an "eminent interpreter of Rousseau and Nietzsche",[8] Strong published on political theory and philosophy with additional interests in the history of ideas, aesthetics in the contexts of film and traditional art forms.
He was also an authority on Carl Schmitt[9] and published journal papers and books on Hobbes, Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Shakespeare and Mark Twain among others.
[11] From 1990 to 2000, an exceptional ten-year tenure, he served as editor of the journal Political Theory[12] and co-authored a biography of his great-aunt, the author and journalist Anna Louise Strong.
[15] He had an abiding interest in Richard Wagner, Beethoven, and music in general, as well as Samuel Beckett and Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hawthorne, Wallace Stevens, and Shakespeare.