AS posts a note about the executive power and manliness, calling up an interview in which Professor Harvey Mansfield juxtaposes the two.
I've been meaning to actually get to the book on the subject, to make a fuller comment, but that appears unlikely to happen, now.
I think in his op-ed piece, Mansfield is talking about a "strong executive", which is more than an executive. We might say it equates to an extra-judicial executive, even.
On that view, his juxtaposition remains unchanged, but doesn't apply to the WSJ piece, which is about another kind of executive.
(pundits view / re-view Manliness)
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Mansfield's Machismo: Part II
