What Will the Humanities Look Like in a Decade?
My latest piece on the humanities’ future, from Inside Higher Ed (September 3, 2021). For many
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The Humanities in the Age of Loneliness
How can the humanities help restore the centrality of the public good, an essential step toward the collective action necessary for combating our current constitutional and ecological crises?
Rage and Beauty: Celebrating Complexity, Democracy, and the Humanities
Adapted from a keynote address given at North Carolina Central University, Robert D. Newman’s essay on
Saving the Humanities and Ben Franklin’s Ass
How should humanities institutions and practitioners respond to ongoing challenges to their value and significance?
Saving the World with Metaphor: Toward an Ecological Poetics
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.
How the Humanities Give Moments Their Meaning
On April 4, 1968, the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, Robert F. Kennedy arrived in Indianapolis for a campaign rally.
James Joyce’s lyrical, sensual literacy legacy: Why so many novels steal from Ulysses
Salon (June 15, 2014) In the “Wandering Rocks” episode of Ulysses, Tom Kernan and Leopold
The President as Snob
The Salt Lake Tribune (March 3, 2012) Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum recently labeled President