I’m not entirely sure what a “respectable” conservative is, and quite what a “humanist” is meant to be these days escapes me. I think though that we can all be confident that the works of Rousseau will not be featured in this show. Probably all that was meant was that the Calista Flockhart character will be a relatively kindly, secular sort, something, I think, that can be both “respectable” and “conservative.” Whether capital-H humanism is compatible with the profound skepticism about human nature that ought to be an essential part of conservatism is, of course, an entirely different question.