From the archive, James Hankins, Mark Bauerlein, and Matthew J. Franck consider the humanities historically and through college presidents.
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SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT
Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.
H. W. Longfellow
As Professor James Hankins notes, people have been doomsaying the humanities for centuries. From the archive, three authors reflect on efforts to kill the humanities, the neccessity of appropriate marketing, and a way not to do humanities.
Wendell Berry is the subject of academic studies and anthologies of essays by earnest young scholars, as though he were a long-dead philosopher—Hegel or someone of that rank.
