Professor Harvey Mansfield Discusses Viewpoint Diversity After Seven Decades as a Conservative at Harvard

Harvey C. Mansfield, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government (Emeritus) studies and teaches political philosophy. Prof. Mansfield has written on Edmund Burke and the nature of political parties, on Machiavelli and the invention of indirect government, in defense of a defensible liberalism and in favor of a Constitutional American political science. He has also written on executive power and has translated three books of Machiavelli’s and (with the aid of his late wife, Delba Winthrop) Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. His book on manliness was published by Yale University Press in 2006. He has hardly left Harvard since his first arrival in 1949 and has been on the faculty since 1962.

Prof. Mansfield will make remarks, engage in a brief conversation with HLS Lecturer Alan Raul, and take audience questions.

Lunch talk is sponsored by the Society for the Rule of Law and Mr. Raul. Prof. Mansfield and Mr. Raul are members of the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard.

     Harvard Law students, faculty, and Harvard ID holders welcome. Lunch boxes will be provided by the Society for the Rule of Law. RSVP’s gratefully requested for planning purposes by emailing: scopa@societyfortheruleoflaw.org