PRODUCTION - 29 December 2022, Hessen, Frankfurt/Main: A stack of newly published books lies on a sales table in a bookstore in the Bornheim district. Reluctance to buy due to ongoing inflation and ...

F or the past few years, I’ve taught an environmental-humanities course called “Witnessing Climate Change.” I’m a literary scholar and writer, so it’s mostly a writing course, but it also introduces ...

Without the humanities, we may produce efficient workers — fluent in algorithms and markets but unable to envision and ...

You can want different things from a university—superlative basketball, an arts center, competent instruction in philosophy or physics, even a cure for cancer. No wonder these institutions struggle to ...

"A university fundamentally allows students to determine their own paths. Some may opt for more rigorous courses of study.

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree was lit, COVID-19 was still a mysterious respiratory illness in Wuhan, and I was a Ph.D. candidate in a dying field: comparative literature. I was getting ready ...

The death of the humanities. The undying "well, what are you planning on doing with that?" This perceived ‘death’ has plagued students in these fields for as long as they decided that math, science ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. But the arguments used to justify both the active dismantling and the long-term disinvestment ...

For more than 130 years, the arts and humanities at the University of Chicago have played an important role in the evolution of those fields in America and across all of higher education. It is a ...

On April 2, Georgia Humanities received a devastating message from the National Endowment for the Humanities: our general operating grant — which has brought nearly $4 million into the state over the ...