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March 15, 2023
Critical Mass
David Masciotra
A Georgia O’Keeffe Painting and the Battle for the Soul of a Liberal Arts College
Valparaiso University’s student body is shrinking and its dormitories are aging. But is selling the campus museum’s most famous artwork the right solution to the problem?
March 30, 2022
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Annie Abrams
The Lesson in Republicans’ Alarming Embrace of “Classical Education”
Religious charter schools are plainly a threat to pluralistic society. But should liberals learn something from them?
November 11, 2021
Critical Mass
Aaron R. Hanlon
Have the Founders of the University of Austin Been in a Classroom Lately?
Niall Ferguson, Bari Weiss, and others are creating a new university as an antidote to campus illiberalism. It’s a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
July 6, 2015
Jonathan Malesic
Robots Might Save the Humanities
May 14, 2015
Jerry A. Coyne
Life Is "Triggering." The Best Literature Should Be, Too.
A few Columbia students want warnings on Ovid. What's next? Here's what Literature Fascism would look like.
April 7, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Wanted: Personal Assistant. Ivy League Degree Required.
March 17, 2015
Kevin Reilly
,
Charles Steger
,
James Barker
,
J. Bernard Machen
Do Humans Still Need to Study the Humanities?
February 18, 2015
Noah Berlatsky
Death to the "Public Intellectual"
It's time to democratize the title
February 5, 2015
William Giraldi
Creative Destruction
Is it still possible to survive as an artist in America?
December 17, 2014
Zachary Fine
Why We Need Museums Now More Than Ever
An art critic and the Met's former director make the case for objects in the digital age
November 21, 2014
Helen Vendler
Save the Humanities in Our Public Schools
We're depriving students of their national heritage. Here's how to fix that.
June 13, 2014
Blaine Greteman
It's the End of the Humanities as We Know It
And I feel fine
May 2, 2014
Adam Kirsch
Technology Is Taking Over English Departments
The false promise of the digital humanities
September 27, 2013
Steven Pinker
,
Leon Wieseltier
Science vs. the Humanities, Round III
September 7, 2013
Gordon Hutner
,
Feisal G. Mohamed
The Real Humanities Crisis Is Happening at Public Universities
September 5, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
New Evidence: There is No Science-Education Crisis
September 4, 2013
Leon Wieseltier
Crimes Against Humanities
Now science wants to invade the liberal arts. Don't let it happen.
August 21, 2013
Christina H. Paxson
The Economic Case for Saving the Humanities
August 7, 2013
Leon Wieseltier
No, Science Doesn't Have All the Answers
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August 7, 2013
Steven Pinker
Science Is Not Your Enemy
An impassioned plea to neglected novelists, embattled professors, and tenure-less historians
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