humanities

Sharp Compassion

Anna DeForest’s novel is an aesthetic achievement, and it suggests how medicine might be humanized or “restored through instruction” once more. Continue Reading »

21 Mar 2023

Events Roundup—10.27.23

by Editors

Events happening over the coming days that may interest our readers. Continue Reading »

27 Oct 2022

Islands of Tradition in a Secular Sea

by Mark Bauerlein

Even at massive state schools you can find solid humanities programs where students are required to read the Bible. Continue Reading »

5 Oct 2022

In the fall of 2021, a student at the University of Dallas asked me to give a tribute to Dr. Louise Cowan, one of the most famous faculty members at the university, as part of an event centered on remembering the dead for All Saints and All Souls. I had had no occasion to commemorate her when . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2022

Truth, Reading, Decadence

by Mark Bauerlein

After Harold Bloom died in October 2019, E. D. Hirsch told a story from the early 1960s, when they were assistant professors of English at Yale. They both had lived not far from campus, and Hirsch frequently spotted Bloom walking past his house and joined him for a stroll to the office. They had . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2021

When Theory Wasn’t Political

by Mark Bauerlein

I am sorry that young Americans in college don’t get to experience the hazardous joys of theory that they did before. Continue Reading »

22 Aug 2020

Trouble in Tulsa

by Mark Bauerlein

Featuring Jacob Howland on the University of Tulsa. Continue Reading »

26 Apr 2019

Briefly Noted

by Various

The Republic of Virtue: How We Tried to Ban Corruption, Failed, and What We Can Do About It by f. h. buckley encounter, 296 pages, $25.99 Something is rotten in the states of America. F. H. Buckley, law professor at George Mason University, believes patronage networks and crony capitalism . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2018