Harvey Mansfield (Interview 3), Conversations with Bill Kristol, January 19, 2015.

In the third conversation of “Conversations with Bill Kristol’s” ongoing series with the distinguished Harvard political philosopher,  Mansfield and William Kristol explore the distinctive characteristics of our two political parties. Kristol and Mansfield also consider Tocqueville, Machiavelli, and the limits of science—what Mansfield calls “rational control”—in modern politics.