News articles and commentary on the place of the humanities in the modern world.
2405, 2015
College knowledge and computers (Robert Shiller, NYT, May 23, 2015)
A college education should be "broad and general," providing "complex communication skills and expert knowledge."
1005, 2015
Notes on the Humanities Crisis (Princeton Alumni Weekly, July 2014)
The humanities have a PR problem
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