What Was Humanism?

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Eric Adler joins in to discuss his new book, Humanistic Letters: The Irving Babbitt-Paul Elmer More Correspondence

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Image by Leonardo da Vinci, public domain. Image cropped.
Intro music by Jack Bauerlein. 

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