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Zohar Atkins • The Liberal Arts Are Dying Because Liberalism is Dying
Notes from Underground - Stephen Duncombe
Aria • 5 cards
Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will... See more
D. Graham Burnett • Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? | the New Yorker
I figured Professor Haidt would speak about moral psychology, the theme of his book. But instead, on the day of the talk, Haidt discussed the purpose of a university. He urged the audience to consider whether the aim of higher education is to protect students or to equip them with the ability to seek truth, and he was clearly in favor of the
... See moreRob Henderson • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
The right had a Critical Race Theory-like talking point: the academic left is poisoning young minds; there are stable truths.
David Shields • How We Got Here: Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by the Square Root of (Allan) Bloom Times Žižek (Squared) Equals Bannon
There is no fixed American meta-narrative, but there is this ebb and flow between Adamsian veneration of piety and Franklinian love of improvisation, between Calvinist certainty and Deist doubt, between head and heart, virtuocracy and meritocracy, good character and cunning action, between security and freedom, between professionalism and
... See moreJack Hitt • Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American Character
