That’s how Harvey Mansfield is advertising his conference on “feminism” (who knows what that word means anymore, and Mansfield is probably using it ironically anyway). As the Crimson reports, The oft-controversial Government professor and author of the book “Manliness” is hosting, of all things, a feminism conference. The poster for the event bills it as “The Conference the Radcliffe Institute Didn’t Want to Host” and, though the event is free, promises that “ladies receive an additional 50% off.” In the tradition of Bill Buckley, there’s something a little immature about all this—the 50% off joke, for example—but there’s also something worthwhile in trying to figure out whether the claim that Radcliffe wouldn’t host a conference of “conservative”(another essentially meaningless label) feminists is true.Why? Because before she was president of Harvard, Drew Faust was dean of the Radcliffe Institute, and if she wouldn’t host such a conference, it suggests something about her. Like what? Perhaps that her politics in this area are more important to her than open intellectual debate. Or that she knew such a conference would alienate her base of support within the university. Or that she didn’t think the people involved were particularly intellectually meaningful. On the other hand, Mansfield could just be making it up to stir the pot; he himself spoke on the subject of “Manliness” with Nancy Cott at Radcliffe in, I think, 2003. Not his finest hour—Mansfield was on pretty shaky ground with that whole “manliness” argument, which was not intellectually serious.