First Things RSS Feed - Harvey Mansfield https://www.firstthings.com/author/harvey-mansfield en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:54:23 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/harvey-mansfield 60 How to Understand Politics https://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/08/004-how-to-understand-politics https://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/08/004-how-to-understand-politics Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0400 For some time we have taken political science for granted, as if it did not require some nerve to come out of a university to tell everyone else how to understand politics. In my case I mean to show more modestly how to understand , not how to practice, politics. The understanding I propose comes from practice, not really from a university, and it has something to do with nerve—which is not often found at universities. Still less is it understood there.

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