Do the Ends No Longer Justify the Means?

At age 93, the magisterial Harvey Mansfield of Harvard has given us a splendid new book, The Rise and Fall of Rational Control. The title will be perplexing to most people. "What is ‘rational control’?" they will ask. And "how can such a thing, whatever it is, ‘rise and fall’?" Professor Mansfield provides a hint in the work’s subtitle: "The History of Modern Political Philosophy."

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