“How to lie (virtuously): A Renaissance Guide to Deception in Politics,” presented by John-Paul Heil, Ph.D.
It's virtuous to lie in politics! At least, that's what some Catholic scholars in Renaissance Italy thought, and maybe you would too after fifty years of assassinations, French invasions, and a king who taxidermied his enemies for fun. But the tiny moral compromises these humanists made led to what Pope Benedict XVI called a skeptical crisis of cultures, and our best hope for a way out comes from—Jane Austen?!?