"Harvey Mansfield’s most recent book is about “manliness.” I want to talk about honor. Honor is, at least in some of its aspects, related to manliness, perhaps even a child of manliness, as Professor Mansfield indicates in his book. But honor operates more on the surface of political life. It is more insistent on being seen or recognized in public and it varies, according to the different “publics” of different eras or different political regimes."(...)