Harvey Mansfield

[LeoCasey at aol.com]

   Harvey Mansfield? Andrew Sullivan's pal! Thank's him in the preface to
_Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality_
Michael Pugliese


Harvey Mansfield is the translator of de Tocqueville; I don't know if his 
translation is so poor as it is simply politically tendentious. He has been a 
fixture of the Harvard Political Science department for ages. He is a 
political philosopher follower of Leo Strauss, like the late Alan Bloom. His 
work has mostly been on Machiavelli. I saw in the _Lingua Franca_ Thernstrom 
piece, that he was described as a liberal driven to the right by the New 
Left, but it is very hard to think of him -- or Alan Bloom, who stormed out 
of Cornell after the African-American students did their armed occupation of 
some buildings -- as ever having been on the liberal side of American 
politics.  

Leo Casey
United Federation of Teachers
260 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)

Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never has, and it never will.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who 
want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and 
lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
-- Frederick Douglass --


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