Harvey Mansfield and Conservatism on College Campuses

Harvey Mansfield reflects on his acclaimed career. He speaks to how academia has changed for conservatives on college campuses.
This speech was given at ISI's yearly Gala for Western Civilization.
Harvey C. Mansfield, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government, studies and teaches political philosophy. 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 has translated three books of Machiavelli’s and (with the aid of his wife) Tocqueville's Democracy in America.