Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138
The Department of Government Presents
The Vik-Bailey Lecture Series
Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University
Liberal Conservatism
Conservatism is both opposed to liberalism and part of liberalism. How can this be? The lecturer will do his best to show.
Harvey C. Mansfield, ’53, 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.