Living at a distance (Maria Guilia Marini, Fondazione Istud)
What we lose, but may recover, when living remotely from others.
7
07, 2020
23
06, 2020
Humanities as a guide to our uncertain future (Alexis Wright, The Guardian)
Cutting funding for humanities in Australia diminishes our insight and foresight.
17
06, 2020
The humanities and critical inquiry (James Hankins, Public Discourse)
How the history of the humanities can show us the way to critical reform.
10
06, 2020
The nearness of Shakespeare’s thinking (Scott Newstok)
Why Shakespeare still informs us about education in our time of technology.
8
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.
26
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.
10
05, 2020
Humanities resilient in the UK (Rosemary Bennett, The Times)
How the humanities are preparing us for life and work in the UK.
6
04, 2020
Plague and pandemic, at a distance (James Hankins, Quillette)
Coping with disease at a distance during the time of plague.
16
03, 2020
The Renaissance is closed
How the coronavirus shows that the Renaissance is closed, and how we may recover it.
11
03, 2020
First in flight
The flight of poetry matches that of science.