Ira Wells teaches in the Vic One program of the University of Toronto. Imagine you are 17 years old and bound for university. You were born in 2006, two years before the economic meltdown. You are ...

Are the arts and humanities still needed as universities retrench staff and cut costs? Patty Raun explains why curtailing or ...

What would the New York Times look like if every article that mentioned the humanities were removed? Would the iPhone be so elegant if Steve Jobs, famously staunch advocate of liberal arts that he was ...

The relevance of the humanities in today’s market-driven, consumerist world often feels like a topic for niche conversations at academic conferences and boardroom meetings—hardly a pressing concern in ...

Readers respond to a guest essay by a philosophy professor about difficulties defending the humanities. To the Editor: Re “I Teach the Humanities. I Still Don’t Know What Their Value Is,” by Agnes ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. As humanists grow ever more desperate for students, funding and public recognition, these scholars ...

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An article in The Guardian earlier this year declared: "A war is being waged within the cloistered world of academia." It pressed on, stating that "currently fixed in the crosshairs are the ...

Arizona State University’s new medical school got its accreditation this fall; the John Shufeldt School of Medicine and ...

To address environmental challenges, we don't just need to understand the science behind how the world is changing. We also need to understand how the relationship with our environment is shaped by ...

As we head into 2020, we're running the best, most insightful and most essential Worklife stories from 2019. Read all of the year's biggest hits here. At university, when I told people I was studying ...