Harvard’s Slide into Stupidity

Harvard’s Slide into Stupidity

I have never met Harvey Mansfield, the distinguished scholar and Harvard University Professor of Government, Emeritus, but he strikes me as the kind of professor I had in my first graduate course at Georgia State University, then a commuter college in downtown Atlanta, in 1992. That professor taught Early American Literature with the appreciation, insight, and knowledge of a traditional scholar. But he was a member of a vanishing breed. My next …