What do the humanities have to say? And who should listen? A note from Mary Beard, at year’s end:

They have just issued on the website a top 24 of Cambridge research stories this year. On my reckoning, 19 of those are pure science…. You’d think from looking at this roster that none of the work that some of us do rethinking Greek tragedy, or the demography of the medieval city, or the impact of T. S. Eliot counted for a hill of beans.

So does it?

To put it another way, if we can’t find a way of explaining (and convincing our universities why it deserves explaining) how those of us who work in humanities have an innovative story to tell, we are lost.

h/t Robert Townshend