A Defense of Humanism in a Time of War

This week, why we should not lose sight of our common humanity in a time of war.

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This week's sources:

[1] “Masks,” Wednesday Blog 4.15.

[2] Luke 10:27 (New American Bible).

[3] St. Augustine, Confessions 8.7.

[4] Joan-Pau Rubiés, “The Renaissance of Encounters and the Renaissance of Antiquities,” Renaissance Quarterly 78, no. 1 (2025): 1–41, at 12.

[5] Philippe Desan, Montaigne: A Life, trans. Steven Rendall and Lisa Neal, (Princeton University Press, 2017), xxxiii.

[6] “On the Cannibals,” Wednesday Blog 4.20.