It seems we’ve decided the humanities have less to give the human race — or more modestly, this country’s future — than the sciences. This is a serious mistake. The sciences and the humanities are ...

T he good news: There is no longer a crisis in the humanities. Our field’s long-running narrative of continuous crisis is ...

When I was a college freshman, many years ago, I enrolled in a course on the history of Western Civilization. In it, we began by reading Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and other prominent ...

AI may raise the floor, but human beings raise the ceiling. Discover five ways that liberal arts skills are becoming ever ...

Arizona State University’s new medical school got its accreditation this fall; the John Shufeldt School of Medicine and ...

What would the New York Times look like if every article that mentioned the humanities were removed? Would the iPhone be so elegant if Steve Jobs, famously staunch advocate of liberal arts that he was ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. As humanists grow ever more desperate for students, funding and public recognition, these scholars ...

Readers respond to a guest essay by a philosophy professor about difficulties defending the humanities. To the Editor: Re “I Teach the Humanities. I Still Don’t Know What Their Value Is,” by Agnes ...

Ira Wells teaches in the Vic One program of the University of Toronto. Imagine you are 17 years old and bound for university. You were born in 2006, two years before the economic meltdown. You are ...

An article in The Guardian earlier this year declared: "A war is being waged within the cloistered world of academia." It pressed on, stating that "currently fixed in the crosshairs are the ...

Established in the 1960s, the Medical Humanities program at the College of Medicine is one of the first of its kind in the U.S. The Medical Humanities program supports the development of intellectual, ...