humanities

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/30/2021
  

  Is the Narrative Impulse Dangerous (Review)?

  by Timothy Snyder

  Jonathan Gottschall's book proposes that human intellect is a captive of the structure of stories. Reviewer Timothy Snyder is skeptical of his case. 

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• 10/17/2021
  

  We Need Poets as Much as Physicists and Artists as Much as Actuaries

  by David P. Barash

  We need the expertise of scientists and technologists to solve big problems, but we need artists to make people care enough about those problems to demand solutions.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  9/27/2021
  

  Good News for Humanities Funding?

  "While the prospect for robust funding looks better now than it has over the last four years, advocacy remains crucial to the task of making clear how the humanities connect to the challenges of our current moment."

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  9/2/2021
  

  ‘Whiteness’ and the Humanities

  by Simon During

  Trends in antiracist scholarship are not the cause of the crisis of the humanities, but a response to it. Resolving the impasse between tradition and revisionist scholarship can only come from outside the academy through action to secure the place of the humanities in the university curriculum of the future. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/10/2021
  

  Howard University's Decision To Cut Classics Department Prompts An Outcry

  Anika Prather of Howard's Classics Department shares her view of the decision to close the department. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/10/2021
  

  A Once-in-a-Century Crisis Can Help Educate Doctors

  by Molly Worthen

  The COVID-19 pandemic has offered valuable lessons on the necessity of humanistic education in the training of medical professionals. 

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• SOURCE: Truthout
  3/28/2021
  

  Colleges Are Using COVID as a Pretext to Make Draconian Cuts to the Humanities

  The COVID pandemic has given cover to massive declines in academic employment, with the humanities being particularly hard-hit. It's unclear whether the liberal arts will remain viable at many institutions or how higher ed will change as a result. 

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• SOURCE: Scholarly Kitchen
  12/17/2020
  

  The Humanities [Are Everywhere] in American Life

  by Karin Wulf

  A new report indicates that Americans both value and use the humanities. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  12/17/2020
  

  College Cuts in the Green Mountain State

  by Dan Chiasson

  "Data-driven" decisions to cut programs in the humanities are based in unstated assumptions of value that point to a troubling direction in higher education. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  8/24/2020
  

  What Is College For?

  by Steven Mintz

  Two new books argue for a robust and engaged humanistic study as indispensable to higher education. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/22/2020
  

  Danielle Allen Wins Re-envisioned Kluge Humanities Prize

  Dr. Allen, a Harvard political theorist whose work has spanned the Declaration of Independence and the governmental response to Covid-19, will lead an effort to cultivate “civic strength.”

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• 6/7/2020
  

  The Decline of the Humanities and the Bleach-Drinking Epidemic

  by Lior Sternfeld and Mana Kia

  When Donald Trump hinted that injecting "disinfectants" could cure COVID-19, he was displaying a lack of critical thinking skill that is endemic in a society where learning is valued only in economic, rather than civic, terms.

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• SOURCE: World Economic Forum
  4/26/2020
  

  Germany Enlists Humanities Scholars to End Coronavirus Lockdown

  Germany has done more than other nations to enlist the advice of philosophers, historians of science, theologians and jurists as it navigates the delicate ethical balancing act of reopening society while safeguarding the health of the public.

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• SOURCE: MacLeans
  4/15/2020
  

  During the Coronavirus, Academics Have Found Themselves in a Crisis of Their Work

  by Rinaldo Walcott

  I think now is the time for academics to be practicing a public pedagogy where humanists and social scientists engage the public beyond the university in what it means to be human.

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• 4/5/2020
  

  Students of History, Your Professors have Prepared You for such a Time as This!

  by John Fea

  The study of history offers an approach to the world necessary for the creation of good citizens in a democratic society. 

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• SOURCE: Humanities Indicators
  Accessed 8/22/19
  

  Visits to historic sites rising in U.S.

  Read the latest report from Humanities Indicators!

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• SOURCE: WSWS.org
  6/21/19
  

  The war on journalism is a war on the humanities

  by Monika Eisenhauer

  "The intention of historical science is to write the history of people and societies as objectively as possible. For this purpose it needs free and unrestricted access to the sources."

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• 6/2/19
  

  Donald Trump, the Humanities, and the Decline of American Values

  by Walter G. Moss

  We overvalue such things as making money, “getting ahead,” glitz, and celebrity status and undervalue what the humanities and arts emphasize—beauty, truth, and goodness.  

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/2/19
  

  Humanities Endowment Announces New Grants Amid Old Threats

  The grants were announced two weeks after the Trump administration released a proposed budget for fiscal 2020 that called for closure of the agency, whose activities were described as lying outside of “core federal responsibilities.”

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• SOURCE: NY Review of Books
  4/2/19
  

  Are the Humanities History?

  by Michael Massing

  In the brave new world that is emerging, the humanities will have a critical part to play—provided that they themselves can adapt to it.