Sharp Compassion
by Nathan M. AntielAnna DeForest’s novel is an aesthetic achievement, and it suggests how medicine might be humanized or “restored through instruction” once more. Continue Reading »
Anna DeForest’s novel is an aesthetic achievement, and it suggests how medicine might be humanized or “restored through instruction” once more. Continue Reading »
Even at massive state schools you can find solid humanities programs where students are required to read the Bible. Continue Reading »
I am sorry that young Americans in college don’t get to experience the hazardous joys of theory that they did before. Continue Reading »
The search for community is best accomplished through our common pursuit of the humanistic disciplines. Continue Reading »
This week is the time to show appreciation for the teachers in our lives. Continue Reading »
Humanities professors have forgotten the first principle of undergraduate study in the humanities: inspiration. Continue Reading »
Bruce Cole, who led the National Endowment for the Humanities for many years, passed away on January 8. Continue Reading »
With diverse theoretical agendas replacing the arts of truth-seeking in universities, it’s no surprise that the numbers of humanities students are dwindling. Continue Reading »
Academic dogma casts religiously inspired critique as narrow and bigoted, but my experience has been the opposite. Continue Reading »
Part 3, SERVICE. When you join a committee, you either make your colleagues' workdays easier or make them harder. If the latter, they will remember the fact and it may very well come up at tenure time. Continue Reading »