When You’re Right, You’re Right

Even the best of us occasionally finds it hard to resist saying, “I told you so.” In his new book, Where Harvard Went Wrong, Harvey C. Mansfield says that his goal is not to claim vindication but to argue that conservative ideas deserve a more hospitable place in American universities. He has spent decades, though, standing athwart Harvard, yelling “Stop,” so one can detect a quiet note of satisfaction in the record he assembles.