Where Harvard Went Wrong

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Fifty Years of Commentary that Fell on Deaf Ears

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Where Harvard Went Wrong contains Harvey Mansfield’s addresses, spanning fifty years, to Harvard colleagues and students. Mansfield’s plea is, and has always been, that Harvard abandon its partisanship with the left and adopt instead a bipartisan position that welcomes conservatives as well as liberals.With the humor and grace necessary to a longtime lone conservative voice, Mansfield tackles the consequences that intolerant wokeism has wrought upon the university. In a collection of seven articles reproduced from the undergraduate newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, Mansfield treats the clash between Harvard and the Trump administration: He covers Harvard’s unsteady self-conception as an Ivory Tower, affirmative action for conservatives, free speech and protest speech, and the misconceived division between science and the humanities. Altogether, not confining himself to complaints of injustice, he shows what conservatives might offer to improve American higher education.In other, varied speeches and articles from 1975 to the present, Mansfield contrasts the new and the old Harvard, setting the stage for the conflict today; offers a reform curriculum for a college with ambition; and studies the insidious effects of rampant grade inflation and the forfeiture of merit-based grading.In Where Harvard Went Wrong, one professor stands up to a whole faculty, offering arguments rather than evasions and equivocation, and keeping as his lodestar the principle that education must conserve the tradition of learning as well as progress beyond the present. This book is meant for both parties—a guide for conservatives and a gentle, friendly reproach to liberals.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-25
Mått139 x 215 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor200
FörlagEncounter Books,USA
ISBN9781641775014

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Harvey C. Mansfield, Kenan Research Professor of Government at Harvard. He 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 the discovery and development of the theory of executive power and is a translator of Machiavelli and Tocqueville. In 2006 he published a book on manliness, and in 2010 one on Tocqueville. His most recent book is Machiavelli’s Effectual Truth; Creating the Modern World. In production now at Harvard Press, The Rise and Fall of Rational Control; The History of Modern Political Philosophy.He was chairman of the Government department from 1973 to 1977, has held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships, and was on the Advisory Council of the NEH. In 2004 he received the National Humanities Medal from the President, and in 2007 delivered the annual Thomas Jefferson lecture sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2011 he was awarded a Bradley Prize. He has also been a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. But he has hardly left Harvard since his first arrival in 1949 and was on the faculty there from 1962, retiring as Research Professor in 2023.