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Harvey C. Mansfield

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Can a Woke Harvard Still Be the Ivory Tower?

What is new to our time is the hostility of woke to normality and the ambition to transform it. No longer will students graduate and hit “reality” in the form of hostile normality. No more apologies for going to Harvard!


To the Class of 2023: On Self-Censorship

To express yourself fully means to fashion your own identity. And to do that, the danger of being offended in your identity becomes a vital point: You must be free both to take offense when you are disrespected and to give offense when your own identity demands it.


Mubilitas

It is the job of the humanities to make non-science into something positive that could be called human in the best sense.


The Cost of Affirmative Action

In the Government Department where I happily reside at Harvard, there are about 50 professors and about three conservatives. In