The Case for the Liberal Arts. They matter more now than ever. Here, a history class at Tuskeegee Institute in 1902. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Since the Ronald Reagan era, we have heard arguments that ...

I n the summer of 2020, in the midst of pandemic lockdowns and national outrage over the murder of George Floyd, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — the country’s largest charitable organization devoted ...

T he good news: There is no longer a crisis in the humanities. Our field’s long-running narrative of continuous crisis is over. The bad news: The crisis of the humanities has been revealed by the ...

As a humanities professor myself, the biggest danger I see to the discipline is the growing perception, fueled by the ubiquity of large language models, that knowledge is cheap—a resource whose ...

A growing number of college students across the country are shunning the liberal arts in favor of majors in business, engineering, health and science. Some might be chasing higher salaries, while ...

The University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures has launched a new initiative, which brings together data science, AI and the humanities to transform how scholars study the ...

A federal judge has ruled that the government's abrupt elimination of humanities grants previously approved by Congress was "unlawful" and that a lawsuit brought by humanities groups can move forward.

Digital services can enhance government efficiency, improve service delivery, and create new opportunities for innovation. A key focus of the World Bank is advancing digital public infrastructure (DPI ...

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The National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 declared that the humanities are essential for enhancing America’s global leadership “in the realm of ideas and of the spirit,” and ...

The death of the humanities. The undying "well, what are you planning on doing with that?" This perceived ‘death’ has plagued students in these fields for as long as they decided that math, science ...