The nearness of Shakespeare’s thinking (Scott Newstok)
Why Shakespeare still informs us about education in our time of technology.
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06, 2020
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06, 2020
A Distant Mirror? Economic Lessons from the Black Death (William Caferro)
How the fourteenth-century plague offers deeper lessons for our understanding of pandemics.
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05, 2020
The humanities’ counsel to science during the coronavirus (Ronald W. Dworkin, The American Interest)
Why science needs to heed the humanities during the coronavirus.
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05, 2020
Humanities resilient in the UK (Rosemary Bennett, The Times)
How the humanities are preparing us for life and work in the UK.
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04, 2020
Plague and pandemic, at a distance (James Hankins, Quillette)
Coping with disease at a distance during the time of plague.
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03, 2020
The Renaissance is closed
How coronavirus shows that the Renaissance is closed, and how we may recover it.
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03, 2020
First in flight
The flight of poetry matches that of science.
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03, 2020
On math and the Muses
How philosophy and the Muses lead to peace and away from war.
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02, 2020
Don’t call me (Markowitz, Hancock, Bailenson, and Reeves: PLoS One)
Being alone with a silent phone may help mental focus.
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02, 2020
Digital and print, reconsidered (Steven Johnson, Washington Post)
The ways digital and print reading influence how we think and feel.