A Missed Opportunity
Let’s call it the Vanderbilt Report for short, though its formal name is “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences.” And none of its ten authors holds a...
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“Thinking is always in crisis.” Thus observes the narrator of Ian McEwan’s most recent novel, What We Can Know. Set in the year 2119, the novel focuses on its narrator-protagonist who teaches English...
View ArticleHippocrates Among the Intellectuals
As the saying goes, the practice of anesthesia is ninety percent sheer boredom and ten percent sheer panic. I once watched a droplet (a.k.a. “snot”) dangling from the nose of my sleeping patient as he...
View ArticleThe Miseducation of American Business: A Symposium
The COVID-19 epidemic offers us the possibility to rethink certain aspects of education. Business education already was showing the strain of some bad assumptions and institutional choices, and we...
View ArticleBusiness Education and the Humanities
The question before us, whether business schools and business majors ought to include a serious exposure to the humanities in their programs of study, would appear to be an open-and-shut case. Of...
View ArticleHonoring the Moral Purpose of Business
Business has a bad reputation. “It’s just business” is often code for “I’ll take what’s mine and the devil can take the hindmost,” and the villain of Hollywood movies is often a sinister CEO or...
View ArticleBusiness Needs the Humanities to Succeed
What is the second-best reason for studying the humanities in business school? We hope you already know the best reason: to understand what it means to be human, how to live a good life, how to be an...
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“A Glimpse of the Divinity”: What the Humanities Can Provide
Christ Church’s Great Hall Economist Douglass North in passing posits a theory of demand for government funding of education in his book The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860. Investment...
View ArticleGod, Political Science, and Werner Dannhauser
Anyone who takes higher education seriously attends to the words of legendary teachers. They are likely to be undisciplined, witty, and unfashionable; about great books; ironic about the careerism of...
View ArticleFriday Roundup, June 14th
In our Books section this week, Alan Tarr, master scholar of state supreme courts, reviews James Gibson’s book Electing Judges. An excerpt: Many of those concerned about the effects of campaign...
View ArticleAs Parents Write Tuition Checks to Behemoth State
Robert C. Koons, a philosophy professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has written a piece titled “Dark Satanic Mills of Mis-Education: Some Proposals for Reform” in Humanitas. The problems at...
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“A Glimpse of the Divinity”: What the Humanities Can Provide
Christ Church's Great HallEconomist Douglass North in passing posits a theory of demand for government funding of education in his book The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860. Investment...
View ArticleGod, Political Science, and Werner Dannhauser
Anyone who takes higher education seriously attends to the words of legendary teachers. They are likely to be undisciplined, witty, and unfashionable; about great books; ironic about the careerism of...
View ArticleFriday Roundup, June 14th
In our Books section this week, Alan Tarr, master scholar of state supreme courts, reviews James Gibson's book Electing Judges. An excerpt: Many of those concerned about the effects of campaign...
View Article“A Glimpse of the Divinity”: What the Humanities Can Provide
Economist Douglass North in passing posits a theory of demand for government funding of education in his book The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860. Investment in knowledge represents a...
View ArticleGod, Political Science, and Werner Dannhauser
Anyone who takes higher education seriously attends to the words of legendary teachers. They are likely to be undisciplined, witty, and unfashionable; about great books; ironic about the careerism of...
View ArticleFriday Roundup, June 14th
In our Books section this week, Alan Tarr, master scholar of state supreme courts, reviews James Gibson’s book Electing Judges. An excerpt: Many of those concerned about the effects of campaign...
View ArticleAs Parents Write Tuition Checks to Behemoth State
Robert C. Koons, a philosophy professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has written a piece titled “Dark Satanic Mills of Mis-Education: Some Proposals for Reform” in Humanitas. The problems at...
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