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Perceptions that conservatives are wrong or evil serve to justify their exclusion and marginalization at Harvard. Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ‘53 recently described fellow professors for The Boston Globe: “Everybody is a liberal and shows it. They conduct classes in such a way as to make conservatives feel excluded. The atmosphere is very politicized...
...Mansfield said that the foundational knowledge courses proposed to replace the Core’s current “Modes of Thoughts” will be grounded in pertinent issues, not in professors’ specific fields. “[This] will be more what students need rather than what professors in their specialties want to teach,” he said...
...don’t really care too much for the emphasis on knowledge, which seems to emphasize too much on sciences,” Mansfield said. “The emphasis should be more on permanent questions—a little more philosophy and less science...
...certainly don’t object to foreign travel,” Mansfield added...
...Mansfield said he did not find this similarity problematic...