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