Mar 5, 2025
Society must collide with error one way or another, through argument or experience, to move beyond ideologies like wokeism.
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.
Society must collide with error one way or another, through argument or experience, to move beyond ideologies like wokeism.
Ken Burns's new documentary on Benjamin Franklin is neither memorable nor inspiring.