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Podcast: The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
Episode: Machiavelli and Rational Control | Interview: Harvey Mansfield
Description: Today The Remnant welcomes Harvey Mansfield, longtime Harvard professor and philosophical paragon. Though thoroughly intimidated, Jonah Goldberg plucks up his courage and dives into a brilliantly winding conversation about effectual truth, rationalism, virtues in the modern academy, Straussianism, Christianity’s inheritance from the ancients, law and the state, autonomy, American pragmatism, Marx, postliberalism, John Rawls, Locke’s labor theory of value, and the future of America.
Show Notes:—Mansfield: The Rise and Fall of Rational Control—National Affairs article on envy—Remnant: Straussian Summer School
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