A healing legacy (Joel A. Klein, Huntington Library)
How the history of medieval and Early Modern medicine informs our knowledge today.
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11, 2020
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06, 2020
The nearness of Shakespeare’s thinking (Scott Newstok)
Why Shakespeare still informs us about education in our time of technology.
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06, 2020
A Distant Mirror? Economic Lessons from the Black Death (William Caferro)
How the fourteenth-century plague offers deeper lessons for our understanding of pandemics.
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06, 2020
Paradigms of Pandemic (Simone Marchesi)
Reflections on the coronavirus when reading Renaissance literature.
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04, 2020
Plague and pandemic, at a distance (James Hankins, Quillette)
Coping with disease at a distance during the time of plague.
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04, 2019
What, me worry? (Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal)
The reports of the death of the humanities have been an exaggeration.
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12, 2018
Humanities and wholeness
Reflections on Humanities Watch’s third anniversary
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12, 2018
Humanities enhance business and STEM: an interview with Michael Tworek of Cambridge Humanities Group
Using humanities skills to provide new perspectives for business and STEM.
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06, 2017
The Worry-Fencer: the roots and restlessness of our present time.
Tracing the source of our restlessness, in dialogue.
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05, 2016
Free speech and the humanities (Camille Paglia, The Smart Set)
Free speech and the humanities: do the humanities foster, or inhibit, freedom of expression? The author decries the "identity politics" and "improper advocacy" among the humanities, which undermine open, rigorous inquiry. From the article: The problem of political correctness is intensified by the increasing fixation of humanities and even history departments on “presentism,” that is, a preoccupation [...]