Who Can Represent Whom?

Humanism vs. Nativism in the Arts and Academia

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto (“nothing human is foreign to me”), wrote Terence 2,000 years ago.

These words have become the motto of liberal humanists the world over, who believe that there is no experience or orientation with which we cannot empathize or make common cause. It provides the license by which writers can create fictional protag…