You can no longer make students do the reading or the writing. So what’s left? Only this: give them work they want to do. And help them want to do it. What, again, is education? The non-coercive rearranging of desire.

Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will... See more

But to be human is not to have answers. It is to have questions—and to live with them. The machines can’t do that for us. Not now, not ever.

And so, at last, we can return—seriously, earnestly—to the reinvention of the humanities, and of humanistic education itself. We can return to what was always the heart of the matter—the lived experience of... See more

One “must” for this week

The skills we think make us irreplaceable might not be the ones that actually do.

In a candid interview, AI researcher Karina Nguyen reveals that while artificial intelligence is mastering traditionally valued 'hard skills' like analysis and writing, it's struggling with human abilities we often take for granted.

Her insight... See more