Humanities and Communities

by Nathan Nielson

The search for community is best accomplished through our common pursuit of the humanistic disciplines. Continue Reading »

29 May 2018 0

The Enemies, and Friends, of the Humanities

by Mark Bauerlein

A funny thing happened when Michael Novak brought Herbert Marcuse to lecture to his students. It was the early-1970s when campus rebellion had entered its darker phase, and Marcuse was an idol of the Movement. His theory of “repressive tolerance” served as an essential touchstone for protest, and his volatile mix of Marx and Freud seemed an edgy, relevant style of intellectualized activism. Continue Reading »

21 Aug 2014 0

Greeks Bearing Debts

by Peter J. Leithart

Classics is no longer seen as a cutting-edge discipline, but two centuries ago German scholars devoted to the “cult of the Greeks” created the modern university when they developed new methods in philology and installed Altertumswissenschaft, the science of antiquity, at the center of the curriculum Continue Reading »

18 Jul 2014 0