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When Andrew Sullivan was at Harvard as a graduate student in Government, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. '53 was one of the professors he most admired. Mansfield even helped him write his doctoral dissertation...
...this Tuesday, Sullivan--now the editor of The New Republic--will debate Mansfield in Sanders Theatre on gay rights, an issue on which both men are famously outspoken...
...stranger to controversy, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey Mansfield '53 pulled no punches in his prediction for the weekend...
This discussion left me with high hopes for Why Dogs Are Better Than Men. On the face of it, Jennifer Berman's book seeks to collapse the widely accepted pecking order. It is predicated on the assumption that men do not make as satisfying companions for women as Harvey Mansfield would like to believe; the cover concretizes this assumption, featuring a racy-looking mongrel eagerly helping himself to a happy-seeming woman's popcorn as they sit side by side on the sofa, watching television. Inviting. You might cheer the caption that "Dogs aren't threatened by two women with...
...democratic state that gives serious sway to the free-market or libertarian paradigm on speech issues. This is outmoded, I think. New Right intellectuals--and those they influence--utilize hate-speech as part of a cynical manipulation of the insecurities, anger, and confusion that are fundamental to postmodern life. Mansfield and his hate-speech are, I believe, very much the "business of the university," to quote Prof. Warren Goldfarb who differs with me on this. Martin Kilson Thomson Professor of Government