Harvey Mansfield on Manliness

Mansfield's eighth conversation considers manliness as a permanent though problematic feature of human nature. Click "Show more" to view chapters. For more conversations, visit conversationswithbillkristol.org
Chapter 1 (00:15 - 33:22): What is Manliness?
Chapter 2 (33:22 - 1:14:14): Manliness and Liberal Society
The eighth in our ongoing series with Harvard government professor Harvey Mansfield, this conversation marks the tenth anniversary of his important and provocative book "Manliness." Mansfield offers his account of manliness and its importance as a permanent, though problematic, feature of human nature. He explains how liberal political philosophers and liberal society have often been suspicious of manliness, and details the consequences of this for our politics. Mansfield and Kristol also discuss contemporary efforts to transcend manliness through the creation of a gender-neutral society, which have led, according to Mansfield, to “more justice and less happiness.”