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

Teacher Appreciation

by Dale M. Coulter

This week is the time to show appreciation for the teachers in our lives.  Continue Reading »

10 May 2018

The Slow and Steady Shrinkage of the Humanities

by Mark Bauerlein

Humanities professors have forgotten the first principle of undergraduate study in the humanities: inspiration.  Continue Reading »

29 Mar 2018

Bruce Cole: Scholar, Leader, Warrior

by Mark Bauerlein

Bruce Cole, who led the National Endowment for the Humanities for many years, passed away on January 8.  Continue Reading »

18 Jan 2018

Why the Humanities Must Remain Human (Or Die)

by Joshua Mayo

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 »

6 Dec 2017

An Integrated Humanist

by Russell Hittinger

John Senior and the Restoration of Realismby francis bethel, o.s.b.thomas more, 452 pages, $34.99 H igher education has survived the end of the American century, if just barely. American colleges and universities are like a naval mothball fleet that’s still afloat but not seaworthy. Some schools . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2017

Opening Up the World

by Mark Bauerlein

Academic dogma casts religiously inspired critique as narrow and bigoted, but my experience has been the opposite. Continue Reading »

14 Jun 2017

The Unpopular Popular Humanities

by Mark Bauerlein

To become an egalitarian in the area of beauty was to cancel your full appreciation of what is great and profound. We all like to slum it, sometimes, but to get too enthusiastic about pop culture materials or, worse, to take them seriously as objects of aesthetic judgment—well, that was an abdication of the critic's responsibilities, not to mention a sign of vulgar taste. Continue Reading »

30 Sep 2016

Final Advice for the Untenured Conservative Humanist

by Mark Bauerlein

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 »

14 Jul 2016

More Advice For the Untenured Conservative Humanist

by Mark Bauerlein

Part 2: TEACHING. Sage-on-the-stage, the flipped classroom? No need for that. Just avoid a few crucial missteps. Plus: How to raise your students’ grades without inflating them. Continue Reading »

17 Jun 2016