News articles and commentary on the place of the humanities in the modern world.
1005, 2015
The Real Crisis of the Humanities (NYT, December 2013)
“Crisis” and “decline” are the words of the day in discussions of the humanities. A primary stimulus for the concern is a startling factoid: only 8 percent of undergraduates major in humanities. But this figure is misleading.
905, 2015
End of the Humanities (New Republic, June 2014)
Like a consumptive protagonist in a Victorian novel, the humanities have been dying for a long, long time.
505, 2015
Crisis in Humanities (Atlantic, June 2014)
With the Death of the Humanities Why professors, librarians, and politicians are shunning liberal arts in the name of STEM