Every year, fewer students are choosing to study humanities courses such as philosophy, history, religion, languages and literature. This collapse in demand has led many cash-strapped universities to ...

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The Case for the Liberal Arts. They matter more now than ever. Here, a history class at Tuskeegee Institute in 1902. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Since the Ronald Reagan era, we have heard arguments that ...

I n the summer of 2020, in the midst of pandemic lockdowns and national outrage over the murder of George Floyd, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — the country’s largest charitable organization devoted ...

Books with maps are like Captain Flint's buried loot in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island"—a rare find, according to new Cornell research. Digital humanities scholars from the Cornell Ann S.

As a humanities professor myself, the biggest danger I see to the discipline is the growing perception, fueled by the ubiquity of large language models, that knowledge is cheap—a resource whose ...

A growing number of college students across the country are shunning the liberal arts in favor of majors in business, engineering, health and science. Some might be chasing higher salaries, while ...

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The University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures has launched a new initiative, which brings together data science, AI and the humanities to transform how scholars study the ...

Adam N. Chiocco ’27, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Philosophy concentrator in Pforzheimer House. Allison P. Farrell ’26, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Philosophy concentrator in Leverett House.

U niversity leaders in the United States are slashing the humanities left and right. If you take what they say at face value, it’s because of their limited fiscal capacities. But there is growing ...