June 23, 2006
Another delicious irony
I'm sure literary editor Leon Wieseltier would claim this as a scheduling coincidence, but a reader can't help but notice that Harvey C. Mansfield's "Good and Happy," a review of two new books on happiness, comes one week after Martha Nussbaum's evisceration of Mansfield's new book, Manliness (Yale University Press), in the same pages of the New Republic. (Even better, they are currently back-to-back in the "Books & the Arts" page of the magazine's website.)