Books
Burke and Machiavelli on Principles in Politics
– "Burke and Machiavelli on Principles in Politics," Edmund Burke: The Enlightenment and the Modern World, P.H. Stanlis, ed., University of Detroit Press, 1967, pp. 49-79.Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy
– Cornell University Press, 1979; reprinted, University of Chicago Press, 2001.The Teaching of Citizenship
– "The Teaching of Citizenship," PS, Spring 1984, pp. 211-215.Machiavelli’s The Prince
– A new translation with introduction, University of Chicago Press, 1985; second edition, with corrections and a glossary, 1998.Preface to The Government of Poland
– Preface to The Government of Poland, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. Willmoore Kendall, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1985.Comment on Aristotle’s Polis: A Community of the Virtuous
– Comment on "Aristotle’s Polis: A Community of the Virtuous," by Lloyd Gerson, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, J. Cleary, ed., Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1987, pp. 226-228.Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories
– A new translation with introduction, Princeton University Press, 1988.Le Libéralisme et la Vertu
– "Le Libéralisme et la Vertu," Commentaire 12 (Winter 1989-90): 682-83.Machiavel L’art de la guerre
– Introduction, Flammarion, 1991.Executive Power and the Passion for Virtue
– “Executive Power and the Passion for Virtue,” Studies in American Political Development, Vol. 6 (Spring 1992). pp. 217-222.Responsibility versus Self-Expression
– “Responsibility versus Self-Expression," Old Rights and New, Robert A. Licht, ed., American Enterprise Institute Press, 1993, pp. 96-111.Responsible Citizenship Ancient and Modern
– "Responsible Citizenship Ancient and Modern," University of Oregon Press, 1994, 31 pp., a pamphlet containing the 1994 Kritikos lecture.The National Prospect
– "The National Prospect," a symposium, Commentary Magazine, November 1995, 85-86.Excerpt: Lack of virtue is dimming our national prospect. This is a simpler statement than the one posed for the symposium, which lists possible causes of moral decline rather than calling… More
Bring Back Respectability
– "Bring Back Respectability," The American Enterprise, 1996.Excerpt: Picking up trash, removing graffiti, asking the beggars to move on-at first I had trouble deciding which of these activities (any one of which would be easy to carry out) would be… More
Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy
– a new translation with introduction, University of Chicago Press, 1996.Passions et intérêts
– “Passions et intérêts,” Dictionnaire de Philosophie Politique, Philippe Raynaud and Stéphane Rials, eds., Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1996, pp. 453-457.A Powerful Friend
– "A Powerful Friend," Reader's Digest, February 1996.Paterfamilias
– "Paterfamilias," New Criterion, March 1996.Excerpt: Richard Brookhiser remarks, and laments, that George Washington is no longer first in the hearts of his countrymen. Brookhiser’s aim is to restore him in our hearts by way of… More
Machiavelli’s Virtue
– University Of Chicago Press; Reprint edition (March 25, 1998)Excerpt: Machiavelli’s political science has not received the attention it deserves. All commentators are attracted, with a force they often seem not to understand, by the question of… More
Defending Propriety
– "Defending Propriety," Weekly Standard, 21 February 1999.Excerpt: WHEN I LAST APPEARED IN THESE PAGES it was to complain that the Republicans had not made an issue of President Clinton’s misconduct during the election campaign last year. … More
Naturally Proud
– "Naturally Proud," review of The Great Disruption, by Francis Fukuyama, Times Literary Supplement, 16 July 1999.Educating the Prince Eds. Blitz/Kristol
– Educating the Prince: Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield, Mark Blitz and William Kristol, eds., Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.In this festschrift for Harvey Mansfield, twenty-one former students, themselves distinguished scholars and writers, reflect on the whole gambit of Mansfieldian themes, from Machiavelli… More
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
– a new translation with introduction (with Delba Winthrop) University Of Chicago Press (November 1, 2000)The Founders’ Honor
– The Founders’ Honor: There's More to American Politics Than Self-Interest or Principle, Weekly Standard, 3 September 2001.Excerpt: THE WORD “HONOR” is not one we hear much these days. It sounds quaint when we read it of the past and pretentious if applied to the present. We prefer to speak more… More
Liberty and Virtue in the American Founding
– "Liberty and Virtue in the American Founding," Never a Matter of Indifference: Sustaining Virtue in a Free Republic, Peter Berkowitz, ed., Hoover Institution Press, 2003.Excerpt: Liberty and virtue are not a likely pair. At first sight they seem to be contraries, for liberty appears to mean living as you please and virtue appears to mean living not as you… More
Good and Happy
– "Good and Happy," review of Happiness: A History, by Darrin M. McMahon, and Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert, New Republic, 3 July 2006.The Forgotten Virtue: How Plato Perceived the Importance of Courage
– "The Forgotten Virtue: How Plato Perceived the Importance of Courage," review of Plato and the Virtue of Courage, by Linda R. Rabieh, Weekly Standard, 29 January 2007.Excerpt: Courage is a very common virtue, its presence observed by all, even by children, and its absence sometimes severely blamed, more often excused with disdain. Your reputation will… More
Profile in Courage by Emily Esfahani Smith
– Emily Esfahani Smith, “Profile in Courage: Harvey Mansfield,” Defining Ideas (a Hoover Institution online journal), December 13, 2010.Excerpt: Liberalism believes that there are principles by which we live, self-evident truths, and that is our founding principle, all men are created equal.” Referring back to his foil,… More
The Vexing Virtue
– "The Vexing Virtue," review of Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue, by Eric Felten, Defining Ideas, 1 September 2011.Excerpt: Eric Felten, an entertaining man who has written on the making of cocktails, has produced a book on the virtue of loyalty. It is a serious book, though not conveyed in the… More
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
Milestones in the History of Free Society
– Milestones in the History of Free Society -- And Prospects for Perpetuation, A conference of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University May 20 - 21, 2013.A Public Conference in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, at Princeton University, May 20, 2013. Keynote Address by Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvard University,… More
Machiavelli: The Prince of Paradox
– CBC Radio Ideas with Paul Kennedy. "Machiavelli: The Prince of Paradox" Nov 5, 2013. CBC Radio 1.Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC “Ideas” radio program on Machiavelli featuring Harvey C. Mansfield, Clifford Orwin, Michelle Clarke, and Erica Brenner. Comedian Rick… More
Essays
Burke and Machiavelli on Principles in Politics
– "Burke and Machiavelli on Principles in Politics," Edmund Burke: The Enlightenment and the Modern World, P.H. Stanlis, ed., University of Detroit Press, 1967, pp. 49-79.Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy
– Cornell University Press, 1979; reprinted, University of Chicago Press, 2001.The Teaching of Citizenship
– "The Teaching of Citizenship," PS, Spring 1984, pp. 211-215.Machiavelli’s The Prince
– A new translation with introduction, University of Chicago Press, 1985; second edition, with corrections and a glossary, 1998.Preface to The Government of Poland
– Preface to The Government of Poland, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. Willmoore Kendall, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1985.Comment on Aristotle’s Polis: A Community of the Virtuous
– Comment on "Aristotle’s Polis: A Community of the Virtuous," by Lloyd Gerson, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, J. Cleary, ed., Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1987, pp. 226-228.Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories
– A new translation with introduction, Princeton University Press, 1988.Le Libéralisme et la Vertu
– "Le Libéralisme et la Vertu," Commentaire 12 (Winter 1989-90): 682-83.Machiavel L’art de la guerre
– Introduction, Flammarion, 1991.Executive Power and the Passion for Virtue
– “Executive Power and the Passion for Virtue,” Studies in American Political Development, Vol. 6 (Spring 1992). pp. 217-222.Responsibility versus Self-Expression
– “Responsibility versus Self-Expression," Old Rights and New, Robert A. Licht, ed., American Enterprise Institute Press, 1993, pp. 96-111.Responsible Citizenship Ancient and Modern
– "Responsible Citizenship Ancient and Modern," University of Oregon Press, 1994, 31 pp., a pamphlet containing the 1994 Kritikos lecture.The National Prospect
– "The National Prospect," a symposium, Commentary Magazine, November 1995, 85-86.Excerpt: Lack of virtue is dimming our national prospect. This is a simpler statement than the one posed for the symposium, which lists possible causes of moral decline rather than calling… More
Bring Back Respectability
– "Bring Back Respectability," The American Enterprise, 1996.Excerpt: Picking up trash, removing graffiti, asking the beggars to move on-at first I had trouble deciding which of these activities (any one of which would be easy to carry out) would be… More
Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy
– a new translation with introduction, University of Chicago Press, 1996.Passions et intérêts
– “Passions et intérêts,” Dictionnaire de Philosophie Politique, Philippe Raynaud and Stéphane Rials, eds., Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1996, pp. 453-457.A Powerful Friend
– "A Powerful Friend," Reader's Digest, February 1996.Paterfamilias
– "Paterfamilias," New Criterion, March 1996.Excerpt: Richard Brookhiser remarks, and laments, that George Washington is no longer first in the hearts of his countrymen. Brookhiser’s aim is to restore him in our hearts by way of… More
Machiavelli’s Virtue
– University Of Chicago Press; Reprint edition (March 25, 1998)Excerpt: Machiavelli’s political science has not received the attention it deserves. All commentators are attracted, with a force they often seem not to understand, by the question of… More
Defending Propriety
– "Defending Propriety," Weekly Standard, 21 February 1999.Excerpt: WHEN I LAST APPEARED IN THESE PAGES it was to complain that the Republicans had not made an issue of President Clinton’s misconduct during the election campaign last year. … More
Naturally Proud
– "Naturally Proud," review of The Great Disruption, by Francis Fukuyama, Times Literary Supplement, 16 July 1999.Educating the Prince Eds. Blitz/Kristol
– Educating the Prince: Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield, Mark Blitz and William Kristol, eds., Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.In this festschrift for Harvey Mansfield, twenty-one former students, themselves distinguished scholars and writers, reflect on the whole gambit of Mansfieldian themes, from Machiavelli… More
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
– a new translation with introduction (with Delba Winthrop) University Of Chicago Press (November 1, 2000)The Founders’ Honor
– The Founders’ Honor: There's More to American Politics Than Self-Interest or Principle, Weekly Standard, 3 September 2001.Excerpt: THE WORD “HONOR” is not one we hear much these days. It sounds quaint when we read it of the past and pretentious if applied to the present. We prefer to speak more… More
Liberty and Virtue in the American Founding
– "Liberty and Virtue in the American Founding," Never a Matter of Indifference: Sustaining Virtue in a Free Republic, Peter Berkowitz, ed., Hoover Institution Press, 2003.Excerpt: Liberty and virtue are not a likely pair. At first sight they seem to be contraries, for liberty appears to mean living as you please and virtue appears to mean living not as you… More
Good and Happy
– "Good and Happy," review of Happiness: A History, by Darrin M. McMahon, and Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert, New Republic, 3 July 2006.The Forgotten Virtue: How Plato Perceived the Importance of Courage
– "The Forgotten Virtue: How Plato Perceived the Importance of Courage," review of Plato and the Virtue of Courage, by Linda R. Rabieh, Weekly Standard, 29 January 2007.Excerpt: Courage is a very common virtue, its presence observed by all, even by children, and its absence sometimes severely blamed, more often excused with disdain. Your reputation will… More
Profile in Courage by Emily Esfahani Smith
– Emily Esfahani Smith, “Profile in Courage: Harvey Mansfield,” Defining Ideas (a Hoover Institution online journal), December 13, 2010.Excerpt: Liberalism believes that there are principles by which we live, self-evident truths, and that is our founding principle, all men are created equal.” Referring back to his foil,… More
The Vexing Virtue
– "The Vexing Virtue," review of Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue, by Eric Felten, Defining Ideas, 1 September 2011.Excerpt: Eric Felten, an entertaining man who has written on the making of cocktails, has produced a book on the virtue of loyalty. It is a serious book, though not conveyed in the… More
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
Milestones in the History of Free Society
– Milestones in the History of Free Society -- And Prospects for Perpetuation, A conference of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University May 20 - 21, 2013.A Public Conference in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, at Princeton University, May 20, 2013. Keynote Address by Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvard University,… More
Machiavelli: The Prince of Paradox
– CBC Radio Ideas with Paul Kennedy. "Machiavelli: The Prince of Paradox" Nov 5, 2013. CBC Radio 1.Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC “Ideas” radio program on Machiavelli featuring Harvey C. Mansfield, Clifford Orwin, Michelle Clarke, and Erica Brenner. Comedian Rick… More
Commentary
Burke and Machiavelli on Principles in Politics
– "Burke and Machiavelli on Principles in Politics," Edmund Burke: The Enlightenment and the Modern World, P.H. Stanlis, ed., University of Detroit Press, 1967, pp. 49-79.Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy
– Cornell University Press, 1979; reprinted, University of Chicago Press, 2001.The Teaching of Citizenship
– "The Teaching of Citizenship," PS, Spring 1984, pp. 211-215.Machiavelli’s The Prince
– A new translation with introduction, University of Chicago Press, 1985; second edition, with corrections and a glossary, 1998.Preface to The Government of Poland
– Preface to The Government of Poland, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. Willmoore Kendall, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1985.Comment on Aristotle’s Polis: A Community of the Virtuous
– Comment on "Aristotle’s Polis: A Community of the Virtuous," by Lloyd Gerson, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, J. Cleary, ed., Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1987, pp. 226-228.Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories
– A new translation with introduction, Princeton University Press, 1988.Le Libéralisme et la Vertu
– "Le Libéralisme et la Vertu," Commentaire 12 (Winter 1989-90): 682-83.Machiavel L’art de la guerre
– Introduction, Flammarion, 1991.Executive Power and the Passion for Virtue
– “Executive Power and the Passion for Virtue,” Studies in American Political Development, Vol. 6 (Spring 1992). pp. 217-222.Responsibility versus Self-Expression
– “Responsibility versus Self-Expression," Old Rights and New, Robert A. Licht, ed., American Enterprise Institute Press, 1993, pp. 96-111.Responsible Citizenship Ancient and Modern
– "Responsible Citizenship Ancient and Modern," University of Oregon Press, 1994, 31 pp., a pamphlet containing the 1994 Kritikos lecture.The National Prospect
– "The National Prospect," a symposium, Commentary Magazine, November 1995, 85-86.Excerpt: Lack of virtue is dimming our national prospect. This is a simpler statement than the one posed for the symposium, which lists possible causes of moral decline rather than calling… More
Bring Back Respectability
– "Bring Back Respectability," The American Enterprise, 1996.Excerpt: Picking up trash, removing graffiti, asking the beggars to move on-at first I had trouble deciding which of these activities (any one of which would be easy to carry out) would be… More
Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy
– a new translation with introduction, University of Chicago Press, 1996.Passions et intérêts
– “Passions et intérêts,” Dictionnaire de Philosophie Politique, Philippe Raynaud and Stéphane Rials, eds., Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1996, pp. 453-457.A Powerful Friend
– "A Powerful Friend," Reader's Digest, February 1996.Paterfamilias
– "Paterfamilias," New Criterion, March 1996.Excerpt: Richard Brookhiser remarks, and laments, that George Washington is no longer first in the hearts of his countrymen. Brookhiser’s aim is to restore him in our hearts by way of… More
Machiavelli’s Virtue
– University Of Chicago Press; Reprint edition (March 25, 1998)Excerpt: Machiavelli’s political science has not received the attention it deserves. All commentators are attracted, with a force they often seem not to understand, by the question of… More
Defending Propriety
– "Defending Propriety," Weekly Standard, 21 February 1999.Excerpt: WHEN I LAST APPEARED IN THESE PAGES it was to complain that the Republicans had not made an issue of President Clinton’s misconduct during the election campaign last year. … More
Naturally Proud
– "Naturally Proud," review of The Great Disruption, by Francis Fukuyama, Times Literary Supplement, 16 July 1999.Educating the Prince Eds. Blitz/Kristol
– Educating the Prince: Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield, Mark Blitz and William Kristol, eds., Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.In this festschrift for Harvey Mansfield, twenty-one former students, themselves distinguished scholars and writers, reflect on the whole gambit of Mansfieldian themes, from Machiavelli… More
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
– a new translation with introduction (with Delba Winthrop) University Of Chicago Press (November 1, 2000)The Founders’ Honor
– The Founders’ Honor: There's More to American Politics Than Self-Interest or Principle, Weekly Standard, 3 September 2001.Excerpt: THE WORD “HONOR” is not one we hear much these days. It sounds quaint when we read it of the past and pretentious if applied to the present. We prefer to speak more… More
Liberty and Virtue in the American Founding
– "Liberty and Virtue in the American Founding," Never a Matter of Indifference: Sustaining Virtue in a Free Republic, Peter Berkowitz, ed., Hoover Institution Press, 2003.Excerpt: Liberty and virtue are not a likely pair. At first sight they seem to be contraries, for liberty appears to mean living as you please and virtue appears to mean living not as you… More
Good and Happy
– "Good and Happy," review of Happiness: A History, by Darrin M. McMahon, and Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert, New Republic, 3 July 2006.The Forgotten Virtue: How Plato Perceived the Importance of Courage
– "The Forgotten Virtue: How Plato Perceived the Importance of Courage," review of Plato and the Virtue of Courage, by Linda R. Rabieh, Weekly Standard, 29 January 2007.Excerpt: Courage is a very common virtue, its presence observed by all, even by children, and its absence sometimes severely blamed, more often excused with disdain. Your reputation will… More
Profile in Courage by Emily Esfahani Smith
– Emily Esfahani Smith, “Profile in Courage: Harvey Mansfield,” Defining Ideas (a Hoover Institution online journal), December 13, 2010.Excerpt: Liberalism believes that there are principles by which we live, self-evident truths, and that is our founding principle, all men are created equal.” Referring back to his foil,… More
The Vexing Virtue
– "The Vexing Virtue," review of Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue, by Eric Felten, Defining Ideas, 1 September 2011.Excerpt: Eric Felten, an entertaining man who has written on the making of cocktails, has produced a book on the virtue of loyalty. It is a serious book, though not conveyed in the… More
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
Milestones in the History of Free Society
– Milestones in the History of Free Society -- And Prospects for Perpetuation, A conference of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University May 20 - 21, 2013.A Public Conference in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, at Princeton University, May 20, 2013. Keynote Address by Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvard University,… More
Machiavelli: The Prince of Paradox
– CBC Radio Ideas with Paul Kennedy. "Machiavelli: The Prince of Paradox" Nov 5, 2013. CBC Radio 1.Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC “Ideas” radio program on Machiavelli featuring Harvey C. Mansfield, Clifford Orwin, Michelle Clarke, and Erica Brenner. Comedian Rick… More
Multimedia
Burke and Machiavelli on Principles in Politics
– "Burke and Machiavelli on Principles in Politics," Edmund Burke: The Enlightenment and the Modern World, P.H. Stanlis, ed., University of Detroit Press, 1967, pp. 49-79.Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy
– Cornell University Press, 1979; reprinted, University of Chicago Press, 2001.The Teaching of Citizenship
– "The Teaching of Citizenship," PS, Spring 1984, pp. 211-215.Machiavelli’s The Prince
– A new translation with introduction, University of Chicago Press, 1985; second edition, with corrections and a glossary, 1998.Preface to The Government of Poland
– Preface to The Government of Poland, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. Willmoore Kendall, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1985.Comment on Aristotle’s Polis: A Community of the Virtuous
– Comment on "Aristotle’s Polis: A Community of the Virtuous," by Lloyd Gerson, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, J. Cleary, ed., Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1987, pp. 226-228.Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories
– A new translation with introduction, Princeton University Press, 1988.Le Libéralisme et la Vertu
– "Le Libéralisme et la Vertu," Commentaire 12 (Winter 1989-90): 682-83.Machiavel L’art de la guerre
– Introduction, Flammarion, 1991.Executive Power and the Passion for Virtue
– “Executive Power and the Passion for Virtue,” Studies in American Political Development, Vol. 6 (Spring 1992). pp. 217-222.Responsibility versus Self-Expression
– “Responsibility versus Self-Expression," Old Rights and New, Robert A. Licht, ed., American Enterprise Institute Press, 1993, pp. 96-111.Responsible Citizenship Ancient and Modern
– "Responsible Citizenship Ancient and Modern," University of Oregon Press, 1994, 31 pp., a pamphlet containing the 1994 Kritikos lecture.The National Prospect
– "The National Prospect," a symposium, Commentary Magazine, November 1995, 85-86.Excerpt: Lack of virtue is dimming our national prospect. This is a simpler statement than the one posed for the symposium, which lists possible causes of moral decline rather than calling… More
Bring Back Respectability
– "Bring Back Respectability," The American Enterprise, 1996.Excerpt: Picking up trash, removing graffiti, asking the beggars to move on-at first I had trouble deciding which of these activities (any one of which would be easy to carry out) would be… More
Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy
– a new translation with introduction, University of Chicago Press, 1996.Passions et intérêts
– “Passions et intérêts,” Dictionnaire de Philosophie Politique, Philippe Raynaud and Stéphane Rials, eds., Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1996, pp. 453-457.A Powerful Friend
– "A Powerful Friend," Reader's Digest, February 1996.Paterfamilias
– "Paterfamilias," New Criterion, March 1996.Excerpt: Richard Brookhiser remarks, and laments, that George Washington is no longer first in the hearts of his countrymen. Brookhiser’s aim is to restore him in our hearts by way of… More
Machiavelli’s Virtue
– University Of Chicago Press; Reprint edition (March 25, 1998)Excerpt: Machiavelli’s political science has not received the attention it deserves. All commentators are attracted, with a force they often seem not to understand, by the question of… More
Defending Propriety
– "Defending Propriety," Weekly Standard, 21 February 1999.Excerpt: WHEN I LAST APPEARED IN THESE PAGES it was to complain that the Republicans had not made an issue of President Clinton’s misconduct during the election campaign last year. … More
Naturally Proud
– "Naturally Proud," review of The Great Disruption, by Francis Fukuyama, Times Literary Supplement, 16 July 1999.Educating the Prince Eds. Blitz/Kristol
– Educating the Prince: Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield, Mark Blitz and William Kristol, eds., Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.In this festschrift for Harvey Mansfield, twenty-one former students, themselves distinguished scholars and writers, reflect on the whole gambit of Mansfieldian themes, from Machiavelli… More
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
– a new translation with introduction (with Delba Winthrop) University Of Chicago Press (November 1, 2000)The Founders’ Honor
– The Founders’ Honor: There's More to American Politics Than Self-Interest or Principle, Weekly Standard, 3 September 2001.Excerpt: THE WORD “HONOR” is not one we hear much these days. It sounds quaint when we read it of the past and pretentious if applied to the present. We prefer to speak more… More
Liberty and Virtue in the American Founding
– "Liberty and Virtue in the American Founding," Never a Matter of Indifference: Sustaining Virtue in a Free Republic, Peter Berkowitz, ed., Hoover Institution Press, 2003.Excerpt: Liberty and virtue are not a likely pair. At first sight they seem to be contraries, for liberty appears to mean living as you please and virtue appears to mean living not as you… More
Good and Happy
– "Good and Happy," review of Happiness: A History, by Darrin M. McMahon, and Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert, New Republic, 3 July 2006.The Forgotten Virtue: How Plato Perceived the Importance of Courage
– "The Forgotten Virtue: How Plato Perceived the Importance of Courage," review of Plato and the Virtue of Courage, by Linda R. Rabieh, Weekly Standard, 29 January 2007.Excerpt: Courage is a very common virtue, its presence observed by all, even by children, and its absence sometimes severely blamed, more often excused with disdain. Your reputation will… More
Profile in Courage by Emily Esfahani Smith
– Emily Esfahani Smith, “Profile in Courage: Harvey Mansfield,” Defining Ideas (a Hoover Institution online journal), December 13, 2010.Excerpt: Liberalism believes that there are principles by which we live, self-evident truths, and that is our founding principle, all men are created equal.” Referring back to his foil,… More
The Vexing Virtue
– "The Vexing Virtue," review of Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue, by Eric Felten, Defining Ideas, 1 September 2011.Excerpt: Eric Felten, an entertaining man who has written on the making of cocktails, has produced a book on the virtue of loyalty. It is a serious book, though not conveyed in the… More
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
Milestones in the History of Free Society
– Milestones in the History of Free Society -- And Prospects for Perpetuation, A conference of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University May 20 - 21, 2013.A Public Conference in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, at Princeton University, May 20, 2013. Keynote Address by Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvard University,… More
Machiavelli: The Prince of Paradox
– CBC Radio Ideas with Paul Kennedy. "Machiavelli: The Prince of Paradox" Nov 5, 2013. CBC Radio 1.Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC “Ideas” radio program on Machiavelli featuring Harvey C. Mansfield, Clifford Orwin, Michelle Clarke, and Erica Brenner. Comedian Rick… More
Teaching
Burke and Machiavelli on Principles in Politics
– "Burke and Machiavelli on Principles in Politics," Edmund Burke: The Enlightenment and the Modern World, P.H. Stanlis, ed., University of Detroit Press, 1967, pp. 49-79.Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy
– Cornell University Press, 1979; reprinted, University of Chicago Press, 2001.The Teaching of Citizenship
– "The Teaching of Citizenship," PS, Spring 1984, pp. 211-215.Machiavelli’s The Prince
– A new translation with introduction, University of Chicago Press, 1985; second edition, with corrections and a glossary, 1998.Preface to The Government of Poland
– Preface to The Government of Poland, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. Willmoore Kendall, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1985.Comment on Aristotle’s Polis: A Community of the Virtuous
– Comment on "Aristotle’s Polis: A Community of the Virtuous," by Lloyd Gerson, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, J. Cleary, ed., Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1987, pp. 226-228.Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories
– A new translation with introduction, Princeton University Press, 1988.Le Libéralisme et la Vertu
– "Le Libéralisme et la Vertu," Commentaire 12 (Winter 1989-90): 682-83.Machiavel L’art de la guerre
– Introduction, Flammarion, 1991.Executive Power and the Passion for Virtue
– “Executive Power and the Passion for Virtue,” Studies in American Political Development, Vol. 6 (Spring 1992). pp. 217-222.Responsibility versus Self-Expression
– “Responsibility versus Self-Expression," Old Rights and New, Robert A. Licht, ed., American Enterprise Institute Press, 1993, pp. 96-111.Responsible Citizenship Ancient and Modern
– "Responsible Citizenship Ancient and Modern," University of Oregon Press, 1994, 31 pp., a pamphlet containing the 1994 Kritikos lecture.The National Prospect
– "The National Prospect," a symposium, Commentary Magazine, November 1995, 85-86.Excerpt: Lack of virtue is dimming our national prospect. This is a simpler statement than the one posed for the symposium, which lists possible causes of moral decline rather than calling… More
Bring Back Respectability
– "Bring Back Respectability," The American Enterprise, 1996.Excerpt: Picking up trash, removing graffiti, asking the beggars to move on-at first I had trouble deciding which of these activities (any one of which would be easy to carry out) would be… More
Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy
– a new translation with introduction, University of Chicago Press, 1996.Passions et intérêts
– “Passions et intérêts,” Dictionnaire de Philosophie Politique, Philippe Raynaud and Stéphane Rials, eds., Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1996, pp. 453-457.A Powerful Friend
– "A Powerful Friend," Reader's Digest, February 1996.Paterfamilias
– "Paterfamilias," New Criterion, March 1996.Excerpt: Richard Brookhiser remarks, and laments, that George Washington is no longer first in the hearts of his countrymen. Brookhiser’s aim is to restore him in our hearts by way of… More
Machiavelli’s Virtue
– University Of Chicago Press; Reprint edition (March 25, 1998)Excerpt: Machiavelli’s political science has not received the attention it deserves. All commentators are attracted, with a force they often seem not to understand, by the question of… More
Defending Propriety
– "Defending Propriety," Weekly Standard, 21 February 1999.Excerpt: WHEN I LAST APPEARED IN THESE PAGES it was to complain that the Republicans had not made an issue of President Clinton’s misconduct during the election campaign last year. … More
Naturally Proud
– "Naturally Proud," review of The Great Disruption, by Francis Fukuyama, Times Literary Supplement, 16 July 1999.Educating the Prince Eds. Blitz/Kristol
– Educating the Prince: Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield, Mark Blitz and William Kristol, eds., Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.In this festschrift for Harvey Mansfield, twenty-one former students, themselves distinguished scholars and writers, reflect on the whole gambit of Mansfieldian themes, from Machiavelli… More
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
– a new translation with introduction (with Delba Winthrop) University Of Chicago Press (November 1, 2000)The Founders’ Honor
– The Founders’ Honor: There's More to American Politics Than Self-Interest or Principle, Weekly Standard, 3 September 2001.Excerpt: THE WORD “HONOR” is not one we hear much these days. It sounds quaint when we read it of the past and pretentious if applied to the present. We prefer to speak more… More
Liberty and Virtue in the American Founding
– "Liberty and Virtue in the American Founding," Never a Matter of Indifference: Sustaining Virtue in a Free Republic, Peter Berkowitz, ed., Hoover Institution Press, 2003.Excerpt: Liberty and virtue are not a likely pair. At first sight they seem to be contraries, for liberty appears to mean living as you please and virtue appears to mean living not as you… More
Good and Happy
– "Good and Happy," review of Happiness: A History, by Darrin M. McMahon, and Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert, New Republic, 3 July 2006.The Forgotten Virtue: How Plato Perceived the Importance of Courage
– "The Forgotten Virtue: How Plato Perceived the Importance of Courage," review of Plato and the Virtue of Courage, by Linda R. Rabieh, Weekly Standard, 29 January 2007.Excerpt: Courage is a very common virtue, its presence observed by all, even by children, and its absence sometimes severely blamed, more often excused with disdain. Your reputation will… More
Profile in Courage by Emily Esfahani Smith
– Emily Esfahani Smith, “Profile in Courage: Harvey Mansfield,” Defining Ideas (a Hoover Institution online journal), December 13, 2010.Excerpt: Liberalism believes that there are principles by which we live, self-evident truths, and that is our founding principle, all men are created equal.” Referring back to his foil,… More
The Vexing Virtue
– "The Vexing Virtue," review of Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue, by Eric Felten, Defining Ideas, 1 September 2011.Excerpt: Eric Felten, an entertaining man who has written on the making of cocktails, has produced a book on the virtue of loyalty. It is a serious book, though not conveyed in the… More
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
Milestones in the History of Free Society
– Milestones in the History of Free Society -- And Prospects for Perpetuation, A conference of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University May 20 - 21, 2013.A Public Conference in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, at Princeton University, May 20, 2013. Keynote Address by Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvard University,… More
Machiavelli: The Prince of Paradox
– CBC Radio Ideas with Paul Kennedy. "Machiavelli: The Prince of Paradox" Nov 5, 2013. CBC Radio 1.Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC “Ideas” radio program on Machiavelli featuring Harvey C. Mansfield, Clifford Orwin, Michelle Clarke, and Erica Brenner. Comedian Rick… More