Aug 19, 2022
Ken Burns's new documentary on Benjamin Franklin is neither memorable nor inspiring.
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.
Ken Burns's new documentary on Benjamin Franklin is neither memorable nor inspiring.
Who will mind the public business? Our elites will. After all, busybodying is their job and their job is all they ever do.