The Humanism of Renaud Camus

An introduction to a much-misunderstood figure, or, Fundamental Ontology for the 21st Century

This is a slightly longer version of a talk I gave at the American Politics and Government Summit, organized by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute in November 2024.

Since I’m writing a sympathetic essay about a controversial figure, let’s be clear about who Renaud Camus is. In a May 2022 essay for Compact, I wrote this brief biography of him:

Renaud Ca…