Martha Nussbaum has a long attack on Harvey Mansfield that includes this passage: Mansfield “serves up a concoction that is contrived mainly to delight the conservative audience that already lionizes Mansfield as the hero of high standards, the enemy of grade inflation, and the foe of feminism. . . . [H]e has his expected audience dead to rights. Readers of The Weekly Standard and National Review, they are already devouring the logic-free, ambiguity-riddled concoction he has served up and smacking their lips.” Fine. It’s widely acknowledged that we conservatives don’t know Plato from NATO. But the next time the New Republic wants to assert that conservatives have low intellectual standards, perhaps it should find someone to make the assertion who isn’t a notorious perjurer.