In this video, beloved @harvard professor Harvey Mansfield describes the philosophical framework underpinning his new book, The Rise and Fall of Rational Control. The book is a survey and summary of the legendary course he taught at Harvard for fifty years—to star students who have defined our politics and discourse ever since. Mansfield locates the birth of modern political philosophy in the work of Niccolò Machiavelli, the first to assert that the objective of politics is not to achieve wishfu