Government professor Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. â53 is widely known on campus as the default example of a conservative faculty member at Harvard.
According to Mansfield, this is not because his views possess any sort of âsuperiorityâ to othersâ perspectives, but simply because a professor with his political stance is ârareâ on Harvardâs campus.
âEvery class you enter, you have to work out your position vis-Ã -vis what the professor is saying,â Mansfield said. âBecause a professor is going to be a liberal, and heâs not going to be bashful about it.â
âThere are many more conservatives among the students than there are among either the faculty or the administration,â he said, adding that those students tend to seek him out as one of the few vocal conservative voices in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.