Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli, Straussianism, and the Character of Liberal Democracy

<p class="MsoNormal"><a href= "https://www.92ny.org/event/conversations-with-tyler-craig-newmark"> Buy tickets</a> for the live Conversations with Tyler recording with Craig Newmark at 92NY!</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Few living scholars can claim to have shaped how we read Machiavelli as decisively as Harvey Mansfield. His new book, <em><span style= "font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Rise and Fall of Rational Control</span></em>, argues that Machiavelli didn't just write about politics—he invented the intellectual machinery of the modern world, starting with the concept of …