The Boston Globe web site has a story about how “Colleges aim to revive the humanities.” The story by Tracy Jan (Nov. 8, 2010) talks about how universities like Cornell, Dartmouth and Harvard are promoting the humanities in response to cutbacks. If, because of cutbacks and lack of support from the federal government, literature and […]

Greg Crane has written a short essay “Rethinking the Humanities and advancing civilization in a violent world” on the The Stoa Consortium blog. In it he argues that the humanities can help us understand the differences between “cultures that drive economic and political systems” on which we depend. It is the humanities that can help […]