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...least one professor says he suspects that Summers’ increasing involvement is an attempt to push the process forward more quickly. “[He] wanted to make some progress,” says Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, who is not on the general education committee, and has been a sharp critic of the review...
...also accuses Summers of trying to conspire with West in “bringing Professor Mansfield down,” referring to Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, though he does not elaborate further...
...only means they have of gauging our engagement? Are they so out-of-touch with our thought processes that they dare not evaluate them, that they do not believe they can make us think better and harder? Quality is much more difficult to quantify. Kenan Professor of Government Harvey Mansfield writes that “Harvard has become too easy” and that “there is a pressing need to make our curriculum more demanding.” It is worth asking what the word “demanding” means, whether it implies an additional...
...time might not be Kim's best strategy. Some see the effort to bring North Korea's human-rights record front and center as a way to increase the pressure on Kim's regime?and ultimately to topple it. Says Gordon Flake, a North Korea expert at the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs in Washington: "The North Koreans aren't just paranoid to think that calls for improvements in human rights are synonymous with calls for regime change." U.S. lawmakers insist, however, that the legislation is meant only to address a humanitarian crisis. Says Congressman Jim Leach, the House bill...
...believe the main difference between us is that he is conservative in the sense of being inherently suspicious of change,” Bosco wrote of Mansfield in an e-mail. “He reveres old institutions for their own sake, and deeply admires proponents of aristocracy such as Edmund Burke. Mainstream American conservatism, in contrast, focuses heavily on liberty and the rights of the individual. Such conservatives venerate Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson over proponents of aristocracy like Burke...