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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities could have a trickle-down effect on Illinois museums, history programs and higher education. An abrupt cessation of federal humanities funding will ...