Hard as it is to believe, given the passions it continues to arouse, 42 years have passed since critical theory started to infiltrate the humanities in the United States. That’s if we count the famous ...

From “fake news” to ChatGPT “hallucinations” to deepfakes created by artificial intelligence, the problem of falsehoods might seem like an extremely modern one. The “Rumors, Disinformation, and ...

If you want an argument in favor of teaching the humanities, I suggest you ask a medical educator. Across the U.S., the age-old debate about the value of a liberal arts education has seemingly ...

Re “Trump Seeks to Eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts” (news article, nytimes.com, May 2) and “Top Officials at National Endowment for Arts Resign Amid Cuts by Trump” (news article, May 7): ...

W hat can sociology tell us about the humanities? Sociological understanding of the humanities began in a field first called the “sociology of knowledge” (in German, Wissenssoziologie), which emerged ...