Pedaling Through the Generation Gap
Recently our 13- and 15-year-old grandnieces came for a four-day visit. My wife and I
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
Time Out with Bill Hendrickson
Time Out with Bill Hendrickson is a weekly radio program on WCOM-LP 103.5 FM, community
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.