Ruth Simmons Delivers Stirring Tribute to the Humanities

That despair is widespread in the humanities should be no surprise. The collapse of undergraduate humanities enrollments and the Ph.D. job market, Eric Hayot wrote last year, has led “to a kind of learned helplessness” among professors watching their disciplines die, thinking: “There’s nothing I can do. At least I’ll be dead before it’s all over.”

I keenly hope that the wise administrators in Singapore will continue their commitment to the humanities and social sciences.

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In that inquiry, we dig deeply into the case studies of neurodiverse writer Naoki Higashida, the civil rights movement’s Freedom Schools, and interdisciplinary scholar par excellence Leonardo da Vinci.