Robert Bartlett on Sophistry

Robert Bartlett discusses "Sophistry: How to Make It Work for You." Robert Bartlett is the Behrakis Professor of Hellenic Political Studies at Boston College. Among other books, he is the author of The Idea of Enlightenment (2001), translator and commentator of The Protagoras and Meno (2004), Xenophon's Shorter Socratic Writings(1996), and, with Susan Collins, of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (2011). About PCG at Harvard The Program on Constitutional Government is associated with the Center for American Political Studies in the Department of Government at Harvard University. It was founded in 1985 by Harvey Mansfield and William Kristol, and guided since then by Mansfield and R. Shep Melnick of Boston College. The Program promotes the study of the U.S. Constitution and its principles, combining the fields of political theory and American government. It brings visiting professors to Harvard, invites guest speakers, and supports postdoctoral fellowships. It seeks to improve the access of Harvard students to political debate by ensuring that the principle of diversity is not confined to favored classes of Americans but extended to political opinion—since it is the interest of all that both sides be heard. Visit harveymansfield.org for additional videos and related material.