When federal humanities funding wobbled in 2025, the Mellon Foundation was ready. That year, its annual report says it issued…
Over 1,000 professors within the University of California system wrote a letter to the administration pleading with them to reinstate…
I have recently seen a study showing how badly English literature has fallen from its old, prominent place in the…
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The most dangerous pandemic in our society isn’t transmitted between bodies, but between minds: A pandemic of lunacy. We are…
In clearing out an office with six decades of materials — grade books, journal articles, papers given at scholarly meetings,…
The University of Kansas caught backlash for offering a course called “Angry White Male Studies” — yet another example of…
While many in the media and beyond tried to explain the deadly violence at Brown University and MIT through external…
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