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Time Out with Bill Hendrickson
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Time Out with Bill Hendrickson

By Robert D. Newman / April 12, 2021

Time Out with Bill Hendrickson is a weekly radio program on WCOM-LP 103.5 FM, community

The Humanities in the Age of Loneliness
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The Humanities in the Age of Loneliness

By Robert D. Newman / August 19, 2019

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
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Rage and Beauty: Celebrating Complexity, Democracy, and the Humanities

By Robert D. Newman / March 12, 2019

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
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Saving the Humanities and Ben Franklin’s Ass

By Robert D. Newman / October 22, 2018

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

Saving the World with Metaphor: Toward an Ecological Poetics
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Saving the World with Metaphor: Toward an Ecological Poetics

By Robert D. Newman / May 23, 2018

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
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How the Humanities Give Moments Their Meaning

By Robert D. Newman / December 20, 2015

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

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James Joyce’s lyrical, sensual literacy legacy: Why so many novels steal from Ulysses

By Robert D. Newman / June 15, 2014

Salon (June 15, 2014) In the “Wandering Rocks” episode of Ulysses, Tom Kernan and Leopold

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The President as Snob

By Robert D. Newman / March 3, 2012

The Salt Lake Tribune (March 3, 2012) Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum recently labeled President

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