Humanities

August 14, 2026

Students Find Beauty and Purpose Through This New Program

A Princeton Theological Seminary professor and her husband are offering students an alternative to isolation and spiritual emptiness.
July 17, 2026

A Tepid Diagnosis of the Humanities’ Crisis

A new report acknowledges the politicization of scholarship but stops short of the reforms needed to restore public trust.
June 22, 2026

The Life Left Out

An essay on creative writing and graduate school leaves little room for the work, family, and responsibilities that give literature—and life—its substance.
June 10, 2026

The Mountain Gives Birth to a Mouse

A report commissioned by Vanderbilt and Washington University acknowledges serious problems in the humanities but offers little meaningful reform.
May 4, 2026

The Finest Company

A model for the kind of intellectual life universities have forgotten.
April 27, 2026

Sweet Reason Is Not Enough

Harvey Mansfield shows Harvard did not just lose its independence but abandoned the intellectual habits that make reason possible.
March 17, 2026

The Passing of a Decent Man

Habermas’s theories offer a needed defense of reason in an illiberal academy.
February 4, 2026

Why Marxism Thrives in Academia

Marxism persists in modern universities not because it explains economic reality, but because it offers moral and emotional gratification while being institutionally insulated from empirical falsification.
January 20, 2026

Teaching the Past in an Age of Illiteracy

A case deeper reading and shared standards.
August 12, 2025

The Age-Old Love Affair Between Beauty and Science Is Making a Comeback
July 7, 2025

Worried About AI? Study the Humanities
June 16, 2025

To Fight Political Polarization, Reinvest in Civics and the Liberal Arts
May 7, 2025

Universities Can Solve the Humanities Funding Problem
February 6, 2025

Artificial Intelligence, the Academy, And A New ‘Studia Humanitatis’
May 10, 2024

Humanities Must Embrace Rigorous Standards
April 20, 2020

The Language Arts Are in Steep Decline
January 21, 2020

The Humanities Throw in the Towel
March 5, 2019

How Diversity Hijacked History 101 and All the Humanities
November 26, 2017

The Decline of the Humanities and Who’s to Blame
September 7, 2017

Fewer Humanities Courses, More Ph.D.’s
February 16, 2017

Don’t Kill the National Endowment for the Humanities
December 8, 2016

Humanities, Pretty Much Dead, Are Mostly a Hunt for Racism and Sexism
September 21, 2016

Why History Courses Are Declining
January 20, 2016

More Bad Numbers for the Humanities
May 28, 2015

COLLEGE SHOULDN’T BE JOB TRAINING, BUT…
October 29, 2012

Jacques Barzun, 1907-2012
October 21, 2012

Pleasure Island
October 12, 2012

Universities Are Vocational Schools
October 4, 2012

The Perils of Student Choice
September 19, 2012

The University of Chicago Chooses Decline