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.
If colleges and universities want to make students into fully mature human beings, then that requires having some sense as to what makes them responsible.
The Giver is not political philosophy, but it’s the next best thing: science fiction.