Feb 6, 2024
An appeal to what are self-consciously seen as mere symbols and myths won't help us escape our postmodern condition.
Today we’re talking with James Hankins about the problems of liberal learning in our current age and all the many facets of that. He is a Senior Editor of Law & Liberty and a Professor of History at Harvard University. He’s one of the world’s experts on the Italian Renaissance and the humanism of the Italian Renaissance and is the author of the much-lauded, highly-reviewed book Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy.
An appeal to what are self-consciously seen as mere symbols and myths won't help us escape our postmodern condition.
Our current culture views people and the world through a cheapened simplicity.