The Cartoon History of Humanism, Episode 27 The Reformation’s One Good Man: Erasmus of Rotterdam

View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. The Reformation’s One Good Man: Erasmus of Rotterdam For half a millennium (in spite of all the towering thinkers who have come since and all... Read More

The Cartoon History of Humanism, Episode 26 Novelist. Journalist. Spy. Wit and Sexual Liberation in Seventeenth-Century England

View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. Novelist. Journalist. Spy. Wit and Sexual Liberation in Seventeenth-Century England There was a time, after the passing of Catholic supremacy and before Romanticism shaded into... Read More

The Cartoon History of Humanism, Episode 25 We’re All Mad Here: The Seventeenth Century Tolerance of Pierre Bayle

View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. We’re All Mad Here: The Seventeenth Century Tolerance of Pierre Bayle “Behold the truth,” is a sentence of omen, perched at the tense verge of... Read More

The Cartoon History of Humanism, Episode 24 The People’s Hero: The Life of Voltaire, Part II

View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. The People’s Hero: The Life of Voltaire, Part 2 If the humanism of today is a gallant mixture of knowing effrontery, global consciousness, and over-the-top... Read More