The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College

Here are eight imperatives—all of them drawing strength and sustenance from the humanities:

1. We need a way of defining and pursuing progress that doesn’t reduce that concept to something that only comes from a digital device.


2. We desperately need access to values and wisdom that aren’t corrupted by the relentless financial metrics and imposed flavor-of

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There’s a reason why the most popular words in tech right now are acceleration, destruction, disruption.

Have you figured out what they want to destroy and disrupt? Here’s a clue—take a look in the mirror.