Books
Party Government and the Settlement of 1688
– "Party Government and the Settlement of 1688," American Political Science Review, Vol. 58 (1964), pp. 933-946.The Religious Issue and the Origin of Modern Constitutionalism
– "The Religious Issue and the Origin of Modern Constitutionalism," How Does the Constitution Protect Religious Freedom?, Robert A. Goldwin and Art Kaufman, eds., Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1978, pp. 1-14.Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy
– Cornell University Press, 1979; reprinted, University of Chicago Press, 2001.Machiavelli’s The Prince
– A new translation with introduction, University of Chicago Press, 1985; second edition, with corrections and a glossary, 1998.Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories
– A new translation with introduction, Princeton University Press, 1988.Harrington’s Long Road Is, at Last, Not a Lonely One
– "Harrington’s Long Road Is, at Last, Not a Lonely One," review of The Long-Distance runner: An Autobiography, by Michael Harrington, Washington Times, 29 August 1988, D7.Foreword to Priests as Physicians of Souls in Marsilius of Padua’s “Defensor Pacis”
– Foreword to Priests as Physicians of Souls in Marsilius of Padua’s "Defensor Pacis," by Stephen F. Torraco, San Francisco: Mellen Research University Press, 1992.Review of The Counter-Reformation Prince
– Review of The Counter-Reformation Prince: Anti-Machiavellianism or Catholic Statecraft in Early Modern Europe, by Robert Bireley, American Historical Review, vol. 97 (February 1992): 182.The Unfinished Revolution
– "The Unfinished Revolution," Three Beginnings: Revolution, Rights, and the Liberal State, Stephen F. Englehart and John Allphin Moore, Jr., eds., New York: Peter Lang, 1994, pp. 9-30. Reprinted in The Legacy of the French Revolution, Ralph C. Hancock and L. Gary Lambert, eds., Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996. pp. 19-41.Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy
– a new translation with introduction, University of Chicago Press, 1996.Foreword to Piety and Humanity
– Foreword to Piety and Humanity, Douglas Kries, ed., Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.The Trouble with Stanley
– "The Trouble with Stanley," review of The Trouble with Principle, by Stanley Fish, National Review, 7 February 2000, 46-48.Excerpt: The trouble with principle, we learn from Stanley Fish, is that it does not necessarily accord with what we like. And when it doesn’t, instead of sacrificing our desires to… More
The Christian Socrates
– "The Christian Socrates," review of Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Dante and His Precursors, by Ernest L. Fortin, Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2003.Excerpt: The late Ernest L. Fortin was a priest in the Assumptionist order who taught for many years at Assumption College and Boston College. This book is a translation of the original… More
The Captive Woman
– "The Captive Woman," Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2004.Excerpt: Not many sermons these days concern the laws of war for the Israelites as distinguished from the Israelis. But consider that the captive woman, though beautiful and fairly won,… More
Stranger in a Strange Land
– "Stranger in a Strange Land," review of American Vertigo, by Bernard-Henri Lévi, Wall Street Journal, 27 January 2006.Excerpt: In the mid-1970s, the “new philosophers” of France, stirred by Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago,” rebelled against the Marxism that… More
Atheist Tracts
– "Atheist Tracts," Weekly Standard, 13 August 2007.Excerpt: As if we were back in eighteenth-century France, atheist tracts are abroad in our land, their flamboyant titles defiant. The God Delusion, God Is Not Great, Letter to a Christian… More
When the Giving is Good: Saving Christmas from the Economists
– "When the Giving is Good: Saving Christmas from the Economists," Weekly Standard, 14 Jan 2008.Excerpt: The wrappings are off and the Christmas gifts stand exposed to the light of day. Did you get what you wanted? Christmas is under attack not only for materialism, not only for… More
Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction
– Oxford University Press, 2010.Excerpt: In view of Tocqueville’s criticisms of philosophy, it may seem paradoxical and presumptuous to call him a philosopher. But he calls himself a “new kind of liberal,” and he… More
A New Kind of Liberalism
– "A New Kind of Liberalism," New Criterion, March 2010.Excerpt: In view of Alexis de Tocqueville’s criticisms of philosophy, it may seem paradoxical and presumptuous to call him a philosopher; yet it was through his critique of philosophy… More
Tocqueville’s Alliance of Religion and Liberty
– Video, Lecture at Catholic University, October 8, 2010. Time 1:50:30.Washington Square
– "Washington Square," review of Washington Square, by Henry James, Claremont Review of Books, 18 October 2010.Excerpt: Henry James’s short novel Washington Square is about Dr. Austin Sloper, a resident of that Square in New York City, who cannot persuade his daughter Catherine not to marry… More
Providence and Democracy
– "Providence and Democracy," Claremont Review of Books, Winter/Spring 2010/2011.Excerpt: Alexis de Tocqueville was a liberal, but, as he once wrote, a “new kind of liberal.” For us, no feature of his new liberalism is more remarkable than the alliance… More
Harvey Mansfield 80th Birthday Conference Panel 1: Party Government
– Harvey Mansfield on his 80th Birthday: A Review of His Works. This event is sponsored by the Program on Constitutional Government in the Department of Government, and in affiliation with the Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University. 30 March 2012.Harvey Mansfield 80th Birthday Conference Panel 2: Liberalism and Conservatism
– Harvey Mansfield on his 80th Birthday: A Review of His Works. This event is sponsored by the Program on Constitutional Government in the Department of Government, and in affiliation with the Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University. 30 March 2012.Harvey Mansfield 80th Birthday Conference Panel 4: Machiavelli and Indirect Government
– Harvey Mansfield on his 80th Birthday: A Review of His Works. This event is sponsored by the Program on Constitutional Government in the Department of Government, and in affiliation with the Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University. 30 March 2012.Machiavelli’s Virtue
– Robert D. Kaplan, “Machiavelli’s Virtue,” Stratfor Global Intelligence, March 20, 2013.Excerpt: Self-interest informs compromise with other human beings, and thus a state governed by self-interest is likely to compromise with other states: whereas a person or state governed… More
Tocqueville on Religion and Liberty
– "Tocqueville on Religion and Liberty," American Political Thought, Spring: 2016.Abstract: Tocqueville declares himself to be a “new kind” of liberal, and the most striking feature of his reform is to propose, and to find in America, an alliance, rather than… More
Essays
Party Government and the Settlement of 1688
– "Party Government and the Settlement of 1688," American Political Science Review, Vol. 58 (1964), pp. 933-946.The Religious Issue and the Origin of Modern Constitutionalism
– "The Religious Issue and the Origin of Modern Constitutionalism," How Does the Constitution Protect Religious Freedom?, Robert A. Goldwin and Art Kaufman, eds., Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1978, pp. 1-14.Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy
– Cornell University Press, 1979; reprinted, University of Chicago Press, 2001.Machiavelli’s The Prince
– A new translation with introduction, University of Chicago Press, 1985; second edition, with corrections and a glossary, 1998.Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories
– A new translation with introduction, Princeton University Press, 1988.Harrington’s Long Road Is, at Last, Not a Lonely One
– "Harrington’s Long Road Is, at Last, Not a Lonely One," review of The Long-Distance runner: An Autobiography, by Michael Harrington, Washington Times, 29 August 1988, D7.Foreword to Priests as Physicians of Souls in Marsilius of Padua’s “Defensor Pacis”
– Foreword to Priests as Physicians of Souls in Marsilius of Padua’s "Defensor Pacis," by Stephen F. Torraco, San Francisco: Mellen Research University Press, 1992.Review of The Counter-Reformation Prince
– Review of The Counter-Reformation Prince: Anti-Machiavellianism or Catholic Statecraft in Early Modern Europe, by Robert Bireley, American Historical Review, vol. 97 (February 1992): 182.The Unfinished Revolution
– "The Unfinished Revolution," Three Beginnings: Revolution, Rights, and the Liberal State, Stephen F. Englehart and John Allphin Moore, Jr., eds., New York: Peter Lang, 1994, pp. 9-30. Reprinted in The Legacy of the French Revolution, Ralph C. Hancock and L. Gary Lambert, eds., Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996. pp. 19-41.Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy
– a new translation with introduction, University of Chicago Press, 1996.Foreword to Piety and Humanity
– Foreword to Piety and Humanity, Douglas Kries, ed., Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.The Trouble with Stanley
– "The Trouble with Stanley," review of The Trouble with Principle, by Stanley Fish, National Review, 7 February 2000, 46-48.Excerpt: The trouble with principle, we learn from Stanley Fish, is that it does not necessarily accord with what we like. And when it doesn’t, instead of sacrificing our desires to… More
The Christian Socrates
– "The Christian Socrates," review of Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Dante and His Precursors, by Ernest L. Fortin, Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2003.Excerpt: The late Ernest L. Fortin was a priest in the Assumptionist order who taught for many years at Assumption College and Boston College. This book is a translation of the original… More
The Captive Woman
– "The Captive Woman," Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2004.Excerpt: Not many sermons these days concern the laws of war for the Israelites as distinguished from the Israelis. But consider that the captive woman, though beautiful and fairly won,… More
Stranger in a Strange Land
– "Stranger in a Strange Land," review of American Vertigo, by Bernard-Henri Lévi, Wall Street Journal, 27 January 2006.Excerpt: In the mid-1970s, the “new philosophers” of France, stirred by Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago,” rebelled against the Marxism that… More
Atheist Tracts
– "Atheist Tracts," Weekly Standard, 13 August 2007.Excerpt: As if we were back in eighteenth-century France, atheist tracts are abroad in our land, their flamboyant titles defiant. The God Delusion, God Is Not Great, Letter to a Christian… More
When the Giving is Good: Saving Christmas from the Economists
– "When the Giving is Good: Saving Christmas from the Economists," Weekly Standard, 14 Jan 2008.Excerpt: The wrappings are off and the Christmas gifts stand exposed to the light of day. Did you get what you wanted? Christmas is under attack not only for materialism, not only for… More
Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction
– Oxford University Press, 2010.Excerpt: In view of Tocqueville’s criticisms of philosophy, it may seem paradoxical and presumptuous to call him a philosopher. But he calls himself a “new kind of liberal,” and he… More
A New Kind of Liberalism
– "A New Kind of Liberalism," New Criterion, March 2010.Excerpt: In view of Alexis de Tocqueville’s criticisms of philosophy, it may seem paradoxical and presumptuous to call him a philosopher; yet it was through his critique of philosophy… More
Tocqueville’s Alliance of Religion and Liberty
– Video, Lecture at Catholic University, October 8, 2010. Time 1:50:30.Washington Square
– "Washington Square," review of Washington Square, by Henry James, Claremont Review of Books, 18 October 2010.Excerpt: Henry James’s short novel Washington Square is about Dr. Austin Sloper, a resident of that Square in New York City, who cannot persuade his daughter Catherine not to marry… More
Providence and Democracy
– "Providence and Democracy," Claremont Review of Books, Winter/Spring 2010/2011.Excerpt: Alexis de Tocqueville was a liberal, but, as he once wrote, a “new kind of liberal.” For us, no feature of his new liberalism is more remarkable than the alliance… More
Harvey Mansfield 80th Birthday Conference Panel 1: Party Government
– Harvey Mansfield on his 80th Birthday: A Review of His Works. This event is sponsored by the Program on Constitutional Government in the Department of Government, and in affiliation with the Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University. 30 March 2012.Harvey Mansfield 80th Birthday Conference Panel 2: Liberalism and Conservatism
– Harvey Mansfield on his 80th Birthday: A Review of His Works. This event is sponsored by the Program on Constitutional Government in the Department of Government, and in affiliation with the Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University. 30 March 2012.Harvey Mansfield 80th Birthday Conference Panel 4: Machiavelli and Indirect Government
– Harvey Mansfield on his 80th Birthday: A Review of His Works. This event is sponsored by the Program on Constitutional Government in the Department of Government, and in affiliation with the Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University. 30 March 2012.Machiavelli’s Virtue
– Robert D. Kaplan, “Machiavelli’s Virtue,” Stratfor Global Intelligence, March 20, 2013.Excerpt: Self-interest informs compromise with other human beings, and thus a state governed by self-interest is likely to compromise with other states: whereas a person or state governed… More
Tocqueville on Religion and Liberty
– "Tocqueville on Religion and Liberty," American Political Thought, Spring: 2016.Abstract: Tocqueville declares himself to be a “new kind” of liberal, and the most striking feature of his reform is to propose, and to find in America, an alliance, rather than… More
Commentary
Party Government and the Settlement of 1688
– "Party Government and the Settlement of 1688," American Political Science Review, Vol. 58 (1964), pp. 933-946.The Religious Issue and the Origin of Modern Constitutionalism
– "The Religious Issue and the Origin of Modern Constitutionalism," How Does the Constitution Protect Religious Freedom?, Robert A. Goldwin and Art Kaufman, eds., Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1978, pp. 1-14.Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy
– Cornell University Press, 1979; reprinted, University of Chicago Press, 2001.Machiavelli’s The Prince
– A new translation with introduction, University of Chicago Press, 1985; second edition, with corrections and a glossary, 1998.Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories
– A new translation with introduction, Princeton University Press, 1988.Harrington’s Long Road Is, at Last, Not a Lonely One
– "Harrington’s Long Road Is, at Last, Not a Lonely One," review of The Long-Distance runner: An Autobiography, by Michael Harrington, Washington Times, 29 August 1988, D7.Foreword to Priests as Physicians of Souls in Marsilius of Padua’s “Defensor Pacis”
– Foreword to Priests as Physicians of Souls in Marsilius of Padua’s "Defensor Pacis," by Stephen F. Torraco, San Francisco: Mellen Research University Press, 1992.Review of The Counter-Reformation Prince
– Review of The Counter-Reformation Prince: Anti-Machiavellianism or Catholic Statecraft in Early Modern Europe, by Robert Bireley, American Historical Review, vol. 97 (February 1992): 182.The Unfinished Revolution
– "The Unfinished Revolution," Three Beginnings: Revolution, Rights, and the Liberal State, Stephen F. Englehart and John Allphin Moore, Jr., eds., New York: Peter Lang, 1994, pp. 9-30. Reprinted in The Legacy of the French Revolution, Ralph C. Hancock and L. Gary Lambert, eds., Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996. pp. 19-41.Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy
– a new translation with introduction, University of Chicago Press, 1996.Foreword to Piety and Humanity
– Foreword to Piety and Humanity, Douglas Kries, ed., Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.The Trouble with Stanley
– "The Trouble with Stanley," review of The Trouble with Principle, by Stanley Fish, National Review, 7 February 2000, 46-48.Excerpt: The trouble with principle, we learn from Stanley Fish, is that it does not necessarily accord with what we like. And when it doesn’t, instead of sacrificing our desires to… More
The Christian Socrates
– "The Christian Socrates," review of Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Dante and His Precursors, by Ernest L. Fortin, Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2003.Excerpt: The late Ernest L. Fortin was a priest in the Assumptionist order who taught for many years at Assumption College and Boston College. This book is a translation of the original… More
The Captive Woman
– "The Captive Woman," Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2004.Excerpt: Not many sermons these days concern the laws of war for the Israelites as distinguished from the Israelis. But consider that the captive woman, though beautiful and fairly won,… More
Stranger in a Strange Land
– "Stranger in a Strange Land," review of American Vertigo, by Bernard-Henri Lévi, Wall Street Journal, 27 January 2006.Excerpt: In the mid-1970s, the “new philosophers” of France, stirred by Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago,” rebelled against the Marxism that… More
Atheist Tracts
– "Atheist Tracts," Weekly Standard, 13 August 2007.Excerpt: As if we were back in eighteenth-century France, atheist tracts are abroad in our land, their flamboyant titles defiant. The God Delusion, God Is Not Great, Letter to a Christian… More
When the Giving is Good: Saving Christmas from the Economists
– "When the Giving is Good: Saving Christmas from the Economists," Weekly Standard, 14 Jan 2008.Excerpt: The wrappings are off and the Christmas gifts stand exposed to the light of day. Did you get what you wanted? Christmas is under attack not only for materialism, not only for… More
Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction
– Oxford University Press, 2010.Excerpt: In view of Tocqueville’s criticisms of philosophy, it may seem paradoxical and presumptuous to call him a philosopher. But he calls himself a “new kind of liberal,” and he… More
A New Kind of Liberalism
– "A New Kind of Liberalism," New Criterion, March 2010.Excerpt: In view of Alexis de Tocqueville’s criticisms of philosophy, it may seem paradoxical and presumptuous to call him a philosopher; yet it was through his critique of philosophy… More
Tocqueville’s Alliance of Religion and Liberty
– Video, Lecture at Catholic University, October 8, 2010. Time 1:50:30.Washington Square
– "Washington Square," review of Washington Square, by Henry James, Claremont Review of Books, 18 October 2010.Excerpt: Henry James’s short novel Washington Square is about Dr. Austin Sloper, a resident of that Square in New York City, who cannot persuade his daughter Catherine not to marry… More
Providence and Democracy
– "Providence and Democracy," Claremont Review of Books, Winter/Spring 2010/2011.Excerpt: Alexis de Tocqueville was a liberal, but, as he once wrote, a “new kind of liberal.” For us, no feature of his new liberalism is more remarkable than the alliance… More
Harvey Mansfield 80th Birthday Conference Panel 1: Party Government
– Harvey Mansfield on his 80th Birthday: A Review of His Works. This event is sponsored by the Program on Constitutional Government in the Department of Government, and in affiliation with the Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University. 30 March 2012.Harvey Mansfield 80th Birthday Conference Panel 2: Liberalism and Conservatism
– Harvey Mansfield on his 80th Birthday: A Review of His Works. This event is sponsored by the Program on Constitutional Government in the Department of Government, and in affiliation with the Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University. 30 March 2012.Harvey Mansfield 80th Birthday Conference Panel 4: Machiavelli and Indirect Government
– Harvey Mansfield on his 80th Birthday: A Review of His Works. This event is sponsored by the Program on Constitutional Government in the Department of Government, and in affiliation with the Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University. 30 March 2012.Machiavelli’s Virtue
– Robert D. Kaplan, “Machiavelli’s Virtue,” Stratfor Global Intelligence, March 20, 2013.Excerpt: Self-interest informs compromise with other human beings, and thus a state governed by self-interest is likely to compromise with other states: whereas a person or state governed… More
Tocqueville on Religion and Liberty
– "Tocqueville on Religion and Liberty," American Political Thought, Spring: 2016.Abstract: Tocqueville declares himself to be a “new kind” of liberal, and the most striking feature of his reform is to propose, and to find in America, an alliance, rather than… More
Multimedia
Party Government and the Settlement of 1688
– "Party Government and the Settlement of 1688," American Political Science Review, Vol. 58 (1964), pp. 933-946.The Religious Issue and the Origin of Modern Constitutionalism
– "The Religious Issue and the Origin of Modern Constitutionalism," How Does the Constitution Protect Religious Freedom?, Robert A. Goldwin and Art Kaufman, eds., Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1978, pp. 1-14.Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy
– Cornell University Press, 1979; reprinted, University of Chicago Press, 2001.Machiavelli’s The Prince
– A new translation with introduction, University of Chicago Press, 1985; second edition, with corrections and a glossary, 1998.Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories
– A new translation with introduction, Princeton University Press, 1988.Harrington’s Long Road Is, at Last, Not a Lonely One
– "Harrington’s Long Road Is, at Last, Not a Lonely One," review of The Long-Distance runner: An Autobiography, by Michael Harrington, Washington Times, 29 August 1988, D7.Foreword to Priests as Physicians of Souls in Marsilius of Padua’s “Defensor Pacis”
– Foreword to Priests as Physicians of Souls in Marsilius of Padua’s "Defensor Pacis," by Stephen F. Torraco, San Francisco: Mellen Research University Press, 1992.Review of The Counter-Reformation Prince
– Review of The Counter-Reformation Prince: Anti-Machiavellianism or Catholic Statecraft in Early Modern Europe, by Robert Bireley, American Historical Review, vol. 97 (February 1992): 182.The Unfinished Revolution
– "The Unfinished Revolution," Three Beginnings: Revolution, Rights, and the Liberal State, Stephen F. Englehart and John Allphin Moore, Jr., eds., New York: Peter Lang, 1994, pp. 9-30. Reprinted in The Legacy of the French Revolution, Ralph C. Hancock and L. Gary Lambert, eds., Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996. pp. 19-41.Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy
– a new translation with introduction, University of Chicago Press, 1996.Foreword to Piety and Humanity
– Foreword to Piety and Humanity, Douglas Kries, ed., Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.The Trouble with Stanley
– "The Trouble with Stanley," review of The Trouble with Principle, by Stanley Fish, National Review, 7 February 2000, 46-48.Excerpt: The trouble with principle, we learn from Stanley Fish, is that it does not necessarily accord with what we like. And when it doesn’t, instead of sacrificing our desires to… More
The Christian Socrates
– "The Christian Socrates," review of Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Dante and His Precursors, by Ernest L. Fortin, Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2003.Excerpt: The late Ernest L. Fortin was a priest in the Assumptionist order who taught for many years at Assumption College and Boston College. This book is a translation of the original… More
The Captive Woman
– "The Captive Woman," Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2004.Excerpt: Not many sermons these days concern the laws of war for the Israelites as distinguished from the Israelis. But consider that the captive woman, though beautiful and fairly won,… More
Stranger in a Strange Land
– "Stranger in a Strange Land," review of American Vertigo, by Bernard-Henri Lévi, Wall Street Journal, 27 January 2006.Excerpt: In the mid-1970s, the “new philosophers” of France, stirred by Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago,” rebelled against the Marxism that… More
Atheist Tracts
– "Atheist Tracts," Weekly Standard, 13 August 2007.Excerpt: As if we were back in eighteenth-century France, atheist tracts are abroad in our land, their flamboyant titles defiant. The God Delusion, God Is Not Great, Letter to a Christian… More
When the Giving is Good: Saving Christmas from the Economists
– "When the Giving is Good: Saving Christmas from the Economists," Weekly Standard, 14 Jan 2008.Excerpt: The wrappings are off and the Christmas gifts stand exposed to the light of day. Did you get what you wanted? Christmas is under attack not only for materialism, not only for… More
Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction
– Oxford University Press, 2010.Excerpt: In view of Tocqueville’s criticisms of philosophy, it may seem paradoxical and presumptuous to call him a philosopher. But he calls himself a “new kind of liberal,” and he… More
A New Kind of Liberalism
– "A New Kind of Liberalism," New Criterion, March 2010.Excerpt: In view of Alexis de Tocqueville’s criticisms of philosophy, it may seem paradoxical and presumptuous to call him a philosopher; yet it was through his critique of philosophy… More
Tocqueville’s Alliance of Religion and Liberty
– Video, Lecture at Catholic University, October 8, 2010. Time 1:50:30.Washington Square
– "Washington Square," review of Washington Square, by Henry James, Claremont Review of Books, 18 October 2010.Excerpt: Henry James’s short novel Washington Square is about Dr. Austin Sloper, a resident of that Square in New York City, who cannot persuade his daughter Catherine not to marry… More
Providence and Democracy
– "Providence and Democracy," Claremont Review of Books, Winter/Spring 2010/2011.Excerpt: Alexis de Tocqueville was a liberal, but, as he once wrote, a “new kind of liberal.” For us, no feature of his new liberalism is more remarkable than the alliance… More
Harvey Mansfield 80th Birthday Conference Panel 1: Party Government
– Harvey Mansfield on his 80th Birthday: A Review of His Works. This event is sponsored by the Program on Constitutional Government in the Department of Government, and in affiliation with the Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University. 30 March 2012.Harvey Mansfield 80th Birthday Conference Panel 2: Liberalism and Conservatism
– Harvey Mansfield on his 80th Birthday: A Review of His Works. This event is sponsored by the Program on Constitutional Government in the Department of Government, and in affiliation with the Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University. 30 March 2012.Harvey Mansfield 80th Birthday Conference Panel 4: Machiavelli and Indirect Government
– Harvey Mansfield on his 80th Birthday: A Review of His Works. This event is sponsored by the Program on Constitutional Government in the Department of Government, and in affiliation with the Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University. 30 March 2012.Machiavelli’s Virtue
– Robert D. Kaplan, “Machiavelli’s Virtue,” Stratfor Global Intelligence, March 20, 2013.Excerpt: Self-interest informs compromise with other human beings, and thus a state governed by self-interest is likely to compromise with other states: whereas a person or state governed… More
Tocqueville on Religion and Liberty
– "Tocqueville on Religion and Liberty," American Political Thought, Spring: 2016.Abstract: Tocqueville declares himself to be a “new kind” of liberal, and the most striking feature of his reform is to propose, and to find in America, an alliance, rather than… More
Teaching
Party Government and the Settlement of 1688
– "Party Government and the Settlement of 1688," American Political Science Review, Vol. 58 (1964), pp. 933-946.The Religious Issue and the Origin of Modern Constitutionalism
– "The Religious Issue and the Origin of Modern Constitutionalism," How Does the Constitution Protect Religious Freedom?, Robert A. Goldwin and Art Kaufman, eds., Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1978, pp. 1-14.Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy
– Cornell University Press, 1979; reprinted, University of Chicago Press, 2001.Machiavelli’s The Prince
– A new translation with introduction, University of Chicago Press, 1985; second edition, with corrections and a glossary, 1998.Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories
– A new translation with introduction, Princeton University Press, 1988.Harrington’s Long Road Is, at Last, Not a Lonely One
– "Harrington’s Long Road Is, at Last, Not a Lonely One," review of The Long-Distance runner: An Autobiography, by Michael Harrington, Washington Times, 29 August 1988, D7.Foreword to Priests as Physicians of Souls in Marsilius of Padua’s “Defensor Pacis”
– Foreword to Priests as Physicians of Souls in Marsilius of Padua’s "Defensor Pacis," by Stephen F. Torraco, San Francisco: Mellen Research University Press, 1992.Review of The Counter-Reformation Prince
– Review of The Counter-Reformation Prince: Anti-Machiavellianism or Catholic Statecraft in Early Modern Europe, by Robert Bireley, American Historical Review, vol. 97 (February 1992): 182.The Unfinished Revolution
– "The Unfinished Revolution," Three Beginnings: Revolution, Rights, and the Liberal State, Stephen F. Englehart and John Allphin Moore, Jr., eds., New York: Peter Lang, 1994, pp. 9-30. Reprinted in The Legacy of the French Revolution, Ralph C. Hancock and L. Gary Lambert, eds., Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996. pp. 19-41.Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy
– a new translation with introduction, University of Chicago Press, 1996.Foreword to Piety and Humanity
– Foreword to Piety and Humanity, Douglas Kries, ed., Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.The Trouble with Stanley
– "The Trouble with Stanley," review of The Trouble with Principle, by Stanley Fish, National Review, 7 February 2000, 46-48.Excerpt: The trouble with principle, we learn from Stanley Fish, is that it does not necessarily accord with what we like. And when it doesn’t, instead of sacrificing our desires to… More
The Christian Socrates
– "The Christian Socrates," review of Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Dante and His Precursors, by Ernest L. Fortin, Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2003.Excerpt: The late Ernest L. Fortin was a priest in the Assumptionist order who taught for many years at Assumption College and Boston College. This book is a translation of the original… More
The Captive Woman
– "The Captive Woman," Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2004.Excerpt: Not many sermons these days concern the laws of war for the Israelites as distinguished from the Israelis. But consider that the captive woman, though beautiful and fairly won,… More
Stranger in a Strange Land
– "Stranger in a Strange Land," review of American Vertigo, by Bernard-Henri Lévi, Wall Street Journal, 27 January 2006.Excerpt: In the mid-1970s, the “new philosophers” of France, stirred by Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago,” rebelled against the Marxism that… More
Atheist Tracts
– "Atheist Tracts," Weekly Standard, 13 August 2007.Excerpt: As if we were back in eighteenth-century France, atheist tracts are abroad in our land, their flamboyant titles defiant. The God Delusion, God Is Not Great, Letter to a Christian… More
When the Giving is Good: Saving Christmas from the Economists
– "When the Giving is Good: Saving Christmas from the Economists," Weekly Standard, 14 Jan 2008.Excerpt: The wrappings are off and the Christmas gifts stand exposed to the light of day. Did you get what you wanted? Christmas is under attack not only for materialism, not only for… More
Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction
– Oxford University Press, 2010.Excerpt: In view of Tocqueville’s criticisms of philosophy, it may seem paradoxical and presumptuous to call him a philosopher. But he calls himself a “new kind of liberal,” and he… More
A New Kind of Liberalism
– "A New Kind of Liberalism," New Criterion, March 2010.Excerpt: In view of Alexis de Tocqueville’s criticisms of philosophy, it may seem paradoxical and presumptuous to call him a philosopher; yet it was through his critique of philosophy… More
Tocqueville’s Alliance of Religion and Liberty
– Video, Lecture at Catholic University, October 8, 2010. Time 1:50:30.Washington Square
– "Washington Square," review of Washington Square, by Henry James, Claremont Review of Books, 18 October 2010.Excerpt: Henry James’s short novel Washington Square is about Dr. Austin Sloper, a resident of that Square in New York City, who cannot persuade his daughter Catherine not to marry… More
Providence and Democracy
– "Providence and Democracy," Claremont Review of Books, Winter/Spring 2010/2011.Excerpt: Alexis de Tocqueville was a liberal, but, as he once wrote, a “new kind of liberal.” For us, no feature of his new liberalism is more remarkable than the alliance… More
Harvey Mansfield 80th Birthday Conference Panel 1: Party Government
– Harvey Mansfield on his 80th Birthday: A Review of His Works. This event is sponsored by the Program on Constitutional Government in the Department of Government, and in affiliation with the Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University. 30 March 2012.Harvey Mansfield 80th Birthday Conference Panel 2: Liberalism and Conservatism
– Harvey Mansfield on his 80th Birthday: A Review of His Works. This event is sponsored by the Program on Constitutional Government in the Department of Government, and in affiliation with the Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University. 30 March 2012.Harvey Mansfield 80th Birthday Conference Panel 4: Machiavelli and Indirect Government
– Harvey Mansfield on his 80th Birthday: A Review of His Works. This event is sponsored by the Program on Constitutional Government in the Department of Government, and in affiliation with the Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University. 30 March 2012.Machiavelli’s Virtue
– Robert D. Kaplan, “Machiavelli’s Virtue,” Stratfor Global Intelligence, March 20, 2013.Excerpt: Self-interest informs compromise with other human beings, and thus a state governed by self-interest is likely to compromise with other states: whereas a person or state governed… More
Tocqueville on Religion and Liberty
– "Tocqueville on Religion and Liberty," American Political Thought, Spring: 2016.Abstract: Tocqueville declares himself to be a “new kind” of liberal, and the most striking feature of his reform is to propose, and to find in America, an alliance, rather than… More