Please note: this event will not be held at Regent College.

The Houston Centre invites you to a public lecture titled “Hospitality and the Political.” Join us on April 9, 6:30–9 pm, at University Golf Club to hear from Matthew B. Crawford. 

About the Event 

Matthew B. Crawford proposes that we live under an authoritative opinion or attitude, often called “humanitarianism.” It is authoritative in the sense that it provides the basic scaffold of meaning for prestige opinion in the West in its encounter with non-Western peoples. This attitude, one of unqualified welcome to “the other,” appears to grow out of the Christian inheritance, yet is distinct from it. In this lecture, Matthew will critique humanitarianism as resting on a thinned-out and abstract anthropology of “mankind.”

Location: 

University Golf Club (5185 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC)

Parking: 

Parking is available at the Golf Club.

About the Speaker

Matthew B. Crawford is a Senior Fellow at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and author of the New York Times bestseller Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work (Penguin, 2009). He does philosophically-informed cultural criticism, often with a historical angle, on topics as varied as artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and the sub rosa political transformations in the West revealed by the Covid drama. His writings have appeared in First Things, American Affairs, The New York Times Magazine, The New Atlantis and many others.