Patrick Luciani

1 month ago | thehub.ca | Patrick Luciani

In this week’s Hub book review, Patrick Luciani examines The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality (Oxford Press, 2025), by Hanno Saur, which takes on the ambitious task of offering a universal history of morality. Through hard experience, the world has learned two truths: protecting countries with tariffs leads to poverty, and vaccines have saved humanity more than any other medical breakthrough. Yet we are stuck in a world where both are under assault.

1 month ago | thehub.ca | Patrick Luciani

As the United States retreats from being a unipolar power, the prevailing global order is at a crossroads. For Canada, it’s time to start thinking about what comes next and what it means for Canadian policy. The Hub is running a new essay series to grapple with these seismic changes and offer a new clear-headed direction for Canadian foreign policy.

1 month ago | thehub.ca | Patrick Luciani

In this week’s Hub book review, Patrick Luciani examines Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, by Ross Douthat (Zondervan, 2025), which makes the case for why everyone should give faith a shot. Conversions from one religion to another are nothing new, but after decades of declining church attendance and rising atheism and secularism, it may surprise some that there’s a growing, albeit slight, trend back to Christianity.

2 months ago | thehub.ca | Patrick Luciani

Commentary 7 February 2025 Bees fly in front of a beehive in Frankfurt, Germany, April 8, 2024. Michael Probst/AP Photo. Rediscovering the wicked genius of Bernard de Mandeville In this week’s Hub book review, Patrick Luciani examines Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, The Wickedest Man in Europe, (Princeton University Press, 2025), by John J. Callanan, which tells the story of the much-maligned 18th-century physician, philosopher, and writer.

Jan 20, 2025 | thehub.ca | Patrick Luciani

Commentary 20 January 2025 Israeli school students wearing blindfolds participate in a protest in Jerusalem, Dec. 21, 2008. Sebastian Scheiner/AP Photo. Why we clamour for knowledge but crave ignorance In this week’s Hub book review, Patrick Luciani examines Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), by Mark Lilla, which delves into how the will to ignorance is holding us back, personally and societally.