News articles and commentary on the place of the humanities in the modern world.
How humanities teach us the art of life (Arnold Weinstein, New York Times)
How the humanities teach us the art of life. A professor of literature asks about life's greater meaning, which the humanities may provide. According to the author, "The humanities interrogate us. They challenge our sense of [...]
In Canada, the liberal arts are still relevant (iPolitics)
In Canada, the liberal arts are still relevant, for their relationship with STEM fields fosters innovation and enterprise. From the post: A March 2016 report from The Business Council of Canada surveyed 90 Canadian employers who said [...]
What employers want from college graduates (AAC&U)
What employers want: employees with liberal arts and humanities sensibilities. What employees lack: these sensibilities .... The article states: that "employers overwhelmingly endorse broad learning and cross-cutting skills as the best preparation for long-term career success. However, [...]
Historian uses new technology to uncover the layers of religious history (EurekAlert)
A 1535 Latin Bible, owned by Henry VIII, contains annotations from the "great" English Bible written between 1539 and 1549, and were discovered recently by Dr. Eyal Poleg, a historian at the University of London [...]
Better scientists with liberal arts (Loretta Jackson-Hayes, Washington Post)
We become better scientists, the more we value the liberal arts. The author recounts how the liberal arts "unlocked" for her the true value of education, and her students in turn became more adroit at [...]
Obsessing about STEM (Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post)
Obsessing about STEM: America seems entranced by STEM education, at the expense of our future, which requires more agile ways of thinkings that the humanities and liberal arts provide. "The United States has led the world [...]
The Clarion Call for STEM (New York Times)
The clarion call for STEM: state legislatures and politicians -- from both parties -- stress education in the sciences, rather than in the humanities and arts: taxpayers should subsidize, the argument goes, those courses of [...]
Math and science are liberal arts (Cecilia Gaposchkin, The Conversation)
The liberal arts include the sciences, and the sciences make use of the approaches the humanities bring to observation and inquiry. The author writes: The idea that STEM is something separate and different than the liberal arts [...]
Engineering the bridges between humanities and sciences (Julio M. Ottino and Gary Saul Morson, Chronicle of Higher Education)
The ways engineering, in order to succeed, requires training in the humanities (for example, Russian literature) and vice versa!
Science needs the humanities (Edward Giuliano, Washington Post)
The President of the New York Institute of Technology explains why the humanities are vital for scientific and medical inquiry.