If it isn’t in another category, it is here.
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09, 2017
The stages of criticism
Is the path of criticism really a path to understanding?
24
09, 2017
Humanities, history, and the university (Katherine Pickering Antonova, Washington Post)
Have conservative politics created the crisis in higher education?
19
09, 2017
Pictures more than words show the humanities’ challenge
Words yield to pictures as the humanities decline.
18
09, 2017
The Two Gardens
Do gardens display the course of time, or a timeless science?
10
09, 2017
The death of English (Hephzibah Anderson, BBC Culture)
The American idiom hastens the English demise.
6
09, 2017
Internet Rx: do doctors and patients know how to read advice on-line? (Philippa Göranson, Pulse)
On-line medical advice tests doctors and patients in new ways.
4
09, 2017
The habits of learning, for good or ill, in tune with the times
Our habits are part of our education for better and worse.
22
08, 2017
Love, beauty, and the quest for wisdom
Love for beauty may lead to higher wisdom.
20
08, 2017
College students know the usefulness of humanities majors (Michelle Cheng, FiveThirtyEight)
Students determine the usefulness of the humanities according to their career path.
18
08, 2017
Literature and science
What literature and science have in common, and how they complement one another.