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Past Director and Emeritus Trustee, National Humanities Center | Dean Emeritus, University of Utah

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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

The Road to Everywhere
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The Road to Everywhere

By Robert D. Newman / March 4, 2011

The Salt Lake Tribune (March 4, 2011) One of our legislators recently referred to liberal arts

Reviving The State of the Profession
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Reviving The State of the Profession

By Robert D. Newman / June 1, 1999

ADE Bulletin 122 (Spring 1999) MLA jokes have proliferated like ethnic ones with the exception

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The Virtues of Silence

By Robert D. Newman / June 2, 1997

Newsweek (June 2, 1997) Vacations often seem like a rush to escape anxiety, missions of

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