The rightful place for Health Humanities lies in medical colleges where Humanities scholars and practitioners work together, ...

Our nation’s educational system, once the envy of the world, has been ensnared in turmoil of late. Most recently, in response to a plea for high schools to stiffen graduation requirements and increase ...

Not surprisingly, the release of ChatGPT has produced a host of concerns about its potentially harmful effects on society. In higher education, commonly cited concerns center on threats to academic ...

While there is a long history of doctor-poets – one giant of mid-20th-century poetry, William Carlos Williams, was famously also a pediatrician – few people seem to know this or understand the power ...

Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots has become rampant among students in higher education. While some might be ambivalent about the impact of ...

A TV program about Bergen-Belsen prompts Rob over at A Comfortable Place to ask whether critics like Matthew Arnold and F.R. Leavis were wrong to believe that studying the humanities makes us better ...

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences report on the state of the humanities and social sciences, “The Heart of the Matter,” has the ring of a familiar lament, one that has reverberated at least ...

Earlier in my academic career, I used to advise students to focus on science and engineering, believing that they were a prerequisite for success in business. I had largely agreed with Bill Gates’s ...

At 12:55 p.m. on a Thursday in early January, the double doors of Salon K at the Marriott Marquis in downtown Washington hung open like an unwanted hug. The space within had been optimistically set up ...

Materialism has been waning in influence in the scientific community, but what has replaced it is not clear. Are we in the midst of a Kuhnian paradigm shift? Possibly. The decline of materialist ...

We are living in an unsettling time. We need to reverse the decline in studying humanities. The real ‘return on investment’ ...