For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it.

Readers respond to a guest essay by a philosophy professor about difficulties defending the humanities. To the Editor: Re “I Teach the Humanities. I Still Don’t Know What Their Value Is,” by Agnes ...

W hat can sociology tell us about the humanities? Sociological understanding of the humanities began in a field first called ...

The humanities are an often misunderstood group of majors. Because non-humanities degrees like nursing and business, for example, seem to have a more clear post-collegiate track, some may think that ...

An article in The Guardian earlier this year declared: "A war is being waged within the cloistered world of academia." It pressed on, stating that "currently fixed in the crosshairs are the ...

The humanities—philosophy, art history, English literature, Slavic languages, musicology, and the rest—are quaint, elderly relatives that the real, serious, modern university (consisting of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Liz Doe Stone is the CEO of Top Tier Admissions. It’s easy to imagine a future where humanities degrees vanish from all but ...

Explore the vital role of Humanities in fostering critical thinking, empathy, and social harmony amid the STEM-focused higher ...

Long viewed as a “public ivy,” Miami University places exceptional emphasis on engaged undergraduate learning, liberal arts training, and the integration of teaching and research among faculty and ...

The above verse from the Broadway show, Avenue Q, sums up how so many feel today about a degree earned from majoring in the humanities, specifically English majors. This attitude has lingered but it ...

Bamman’s project bridges large-scale computational analysis in AI with humanistic scholarship in film and television.