The humanities have entered a new era, one focused on deconstructing power and privilege, rethinking race and identity, and reimagining justice and equality. The goal is no longer just to interpret ...

Fears over the future of humanities spread amid layoffs and restructurings at scores of public and private universities ...

O ver the last couple of decades, the humanities have often been defended. Too often. Those defenses have been most useful when they have segued into what has also become a thriving field over the ...

Neubauer Collegium project to articulate value of humanistic scholarship and teaching in higher education and society ...

Readers respond to a guest essay by a philosophy professor about difficulties defending the humanities. To the Editor: Re “I Teach the Humanities. I Still Don’t Know What Their Value Is,” by Agnes ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. As humanists grow ever more desperate for students, funding and public recognition, these scholars ...

Skills learned in the study of humanities are invaluable in a host of interesting and impactful professions. Credit: Harrison Jones for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: ...

O nce again, there are signs of deep trouble for the humanities in higher education — in the Western world, if not the world as a whole. News of closures trickles in relentlessly. At New Zealand’s ...

Maxwell Eller is majoring in classics and Arturo Padilla in religious studies for health professionals, both at the University of Arizona. “It helped my attention span in a world of YouTube and ...

When artist Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown came across postcards with photographs of unidentified Black women from the early 20th century, she felt an immediate kinship. "I saw them and wanted to know ...

Enrollment in the humanities is collapsing. Why? Probably because (1) there's a widespread belief that humanities degrees should be avoided; (2) the humanities generate too much nonsensical research; ...