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<title><![CDATA[Harvey Mansfield - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17991.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Harvey Mansfield]]></description><category domain="17991">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Viewpoint Diversity and the Scientists]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/5/mansfield-harvard-science-humanties/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harvey Mansfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yet, when we turn from science to the humanities we encounter postmodern arguments like Kuhn's helpless relativism. Far from giving reason why science might be good, the humanities fail to justify themselves. They know they are not science, but then what are they, and what do they know?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who's Holding Up the Ivory Tower?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/whos-holding-up-the-ivory-tower-academia-harvard-pursuit-of-truth-or-societal-progress-6ab173da?mod=opinion_lead_pos5</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harvey Mansfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liberals want academia to reflect society, while conservatives know it has to rise above society.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sanders' Revolution Stalled, But His Platform Lives On]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/bernie-sanders-platform-survives</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harvey Mansfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sanders's revolution may have stalled, but his platform lives on.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, Tocqueville and Greatness in America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/democracy-trump-tocqueville</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harvey Mansfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A conference that I attended recently at the Chateau of Alexis de Tocqueville in Normandy brought me to confront Tocqueville with Donald Trump. I did not see how I as an American, just now, could come to Europe and say nothing about America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s latest choice as president. As I have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Higher Education Scandal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/20/the_higher_education_scandal_118473.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harvey Mansfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, is an institution of good reputation and high quality, where I have some friends. It offers a liberal arts education typical of the best available in America today. It troubles me that Bowdoin, rather than, say, Harvard'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a bigger and richer place...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Crisis of American Self-Government]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323751104578149292503121124.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harvey Mansfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA['We have now an American political party and a European one. Not all Americans who vote for the European party want to become Europeans. But it doesn't matter because that's what they're voting for. They're voting for dependency, for lack of ambition, and for insolvency."Few have thought...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the Imperial Presidency Inevitable?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/books/review/book-review-the-executive-unbound-by-eric-a-posner-and-adrian-vermeule.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harvey Mansfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Executive Unbound,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule, law  professors at Chicago and Harvard, respectively, offer with somewhat  alarming confidence the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Weimar and Nazi jurist'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Carl Schmitt as their  candidate to succeed James Madison for the honor of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pushing Government's Role Too Far]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/what-obama-isnt-saying</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harvey Mansfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama's greatest need is to escape the ideological grip of congressional Democrats and the liberal base of the Democratic party (they're one and the same). But he either doesn't recognize this or, as a conventional liberal himself, isn't so inclined. This self-inflicted...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Argument for a Constitutional Conservatism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/an_argument_for_a_constitution.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harvey Mansfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Constitutional conservatism is a blend of populism and elitism: a good thing made of two dubious ingredients. To explain what that is, in brief compass, I will begin from the dilemma of conservatism, move to the task of conservatism, which I believe to be defending liberalism in the wide...]]></description>
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