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25 06, 2016

4Humanities interviews Humanities Watch

By |2016-11-02T11:52:10-04:00June 25th, 2016|Debate / dialogue, History, HW News, June, Literature, Philosophy|1 Comment

4Humanities interviews Humanities Watch. Ashley Champagne asks about the origins and mission of Humanities Watch, and the humanities' place in society. From the exchange: The point of my website is to demonstrate how the humanities are also in constant conversation with these practical and present interests: science, technology, healthcare, and business. As a matter of fact – [...]

13 05, 2016

Happy graduation, humanities students!

By |2019-05-22T19:05:46-04:00May 13th, 2016|2016, Academia, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, May, News, Philosophy, Religion|0 Comments

Happy graduation, humanities students! "Better a few good scholars than many indifferent ones." You embody the meaning of George Washington's mandate to James McHenry, to paraphrase: it is infinitely better to have a few good scholars, than many indifferent ones. For the number of humanities majors has now decreased to the lowest level in a [...]

27 02, 2016

Math and science are liberal arts (Cecilia Gaposchkin, The Conversation)

By |2016-11-02T11:52:15-04:00February 27th, 2016|2016, Academia, Debate / dialogue, Employment, Everything Else, February, News, Philosophy, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

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 is damaging to both the sciences and their sister disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The value of a liberal [...]

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