Robert D. Newman

Adapted from a keynote address given at North Carolina Central University, Robert D. Newman’s essay on

How should humanities institutions and practitioners respond to ongoing challenges to their value and significance?

Recently, a good friend who has practiced and taught transcendental meditation for many years told me a story about a trip to India on the occasion of the death of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, his teacher, the one who famously instructed the Beatles during the 1960s.

On April 4, 1968, the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, Robert F. Kennedy arrived in Indianapolis for a campaign rally.