News articles and commentary on the place of the humanities in the modern world.
2001, 2020
The death of Danish (Ellie Bothwell, Times Higher Education)
Denmark witnesses the decline in Danish language study.
1301, 2020
Humanities at the crossroads (Ross Douthat, New York Times)
Why students of the humanities face tough choices.
801, 2020
Humanities reimagined (Susan Kirby-Smith, UNCG NOW)
How the reimagined humanities lift our prospects.
701, 2020
Humanities on the edge (Simon During, Chronicle of Higher Education)
How the humanities have lost their centrality.
301, 2020
STEM is in the air (Virginia Heffernan, Wired)
STEM has the air of insubstantiality.
2312, 2019
The alienated have landed (Joseph Bernstein, BuzzFeed News)
Cyberspace culture has increased the ranks of the alienated.
1912, 2019
Brain scans spotlight the cast of history (Pierre Gagnepain et al., Nature Human Behavior)
Using neural imaging, the study suggests how collective memory filters our sense of history.
1512, 2019
Art and memory (Ken Smith, WRAL.com)
Viewing art summons the memory of things past.
1112, 2019
Humanities on the rise in Arizona (University of Arizona News)
New programs lead to higher numbers of majors at the University of Arizona's College of Humanities
1012, 2019
The humanities beyond ‘useless’ self-reflection (Karen E. Spierling, The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Asserting the usefulness of the humanities, apart from moneymaking.