Learning is like sex, and other reasons the liberal arts will remain relevant by Leon Botstein This article first appeared in the Hechinger Report, HERE (with numerous links), and is republished with kind permission. The author is a member of the American Musicological Society. A… Read More
by Steven Ilagan NOTE: For a holiday offering we republish this post from Steven Ilagan’s column “Tunespoon” as it appeared in the California Aggie campus newspaper (e-edition) on 13 November 2014, HERE. We like to encourage good writing anyway, and the sentiments expressed here will be familiar to… Read More
Humanities. A summer of glossy manifestos and thoroughgoing press response kicked off when Harvard published its treatise on the future of arts and humanities there. In mid June the American Academy of Arts and Sciences released its report on the status of humanities and social sciences in the nation: The… Read More