It encourages me greatly that a man like this still has a place at Harvard.

How lonely this poor man must be, crying in the woods, while the fires of the left destroy our once great American society.

Feminism isn't meant to help women - it's meant to help feminists. Gender and racial equality is not about equal opportunities - it's one of many means to get more Leftists into academic positions. It's meant to help someone like Angela Davis, not Thomas Sowell.

Faculties with overwhelming numbers of Leftists isn't a problem for the Left. It's the point. For them the real question would be, "How did those dissenters get by us, and how can we get rid of them without being noticed?"

I was a liberal once and what he says is very true, conservatives are way more tolerant of others, it was something I noticed almost immediately.

So the inmates are running the asylum. Very well put.

Few men have regard for wisdom these days. It's a relief to know these words are still out there.

Fascinating talk; rings true on many levels. I've been in academia for 30 years (including Ivy League schools), one thing I am certain of is that truly open-minded academics are a rarity. I also used to self-identify as a liberal (still am in some areas, though I would insist on the term classical liberalism); but increasingly I am uncomfortable with the agenda of the far-left, and perhaps would now most closely identify with libertarianism. At any rate, I fear our academic culture will not improve any time soon.

So relevant today

Wonderful talk.

Peter Robinson did 'The Dab' first!!

A conservative voice easier to listen to than those who just hurl accusations of socialist and America-hater, etc. An actual argument offered. I'd love to see a discussion between Mansfield and a liberal of equal intellectual caliber.

Grades follow the money.

i like this guy he a REAL american

When he mentions (radical) students pushing universities to the New Left, I'm surprised he didn't bring up post-modernism.

I also agree with him that the conservative is more tolerate.  Because the conservatism often live inside of the frame of being self controled of hard working, obeying the laws, remembering the traditional moralities, honesty, sincereness. ..etc.  The frame often will hold self to move cautiously and often only walk inside of the frame, try not exceed the lines.  Good or bad, hard to say.  However, conservative people often cherish our exceptional systems better, also will be harder to make the movement too.  Because of the frame, this will for sure to only walk instead of the leaps.  Slow paste won't waste much energy, also not easy to loose the weight.  Fast paste would be very tired, but easier to loose the weight.  However, I understand what does he mean.

13:20....Though I am not a professional academic myself; I venture to guess that this is because the assessment of students' work has come to do less with its specific merits, (i.e. composition, coherent rhetoric, grammar and depth of analysis), and more with the degree that its overall thesis coheres to the left-wing academic paradigm.

Well worth listening to

As a person of primarily left politics albeit with a great intrigue and engagement with right intellectualism, I cannot help but find the bulk of the arguments made during the interview to be not only relevant and perspicuous, but also undermining to much of the foundations of left popular identity based politics.

wow..this is still true today

Politics and education, not really something that should be mixed, left or right.