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Conservative Critiques of the Liberal Arts: A Reply to Ben Shapiro

Conservatives have long been critical of universities and the liberal arts. The intellectual roots of this outlook can be traced to the founder of modern conservatism, Edmund Burke, who was…

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13 min

Culture & Media

Servile Oblivion and the End of Education

Liberal education is the individual assimilation of cultural memory: we recover the historical and metaphysical ground of our being by studying the accumulated riches of the past. This humanly essential…

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18 min

Features

Enlightenment Contested

Steven Pinker’s new book is drawing criticism. But is it justified?

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7 min

Culture & Media

The Humanities Scholar as an Advertiser: A Reflection on Academic Language

In his famous 1999 essay “Authority and American Usage,” writer David Foster Wallace meticulously examined the politics of the English language. Amid more obvious analyses of political correctness, White English and…

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7 min

Politics

The Case of Lindsay Shepherd and What It Teaches Us about How Learning Occurs

People with real power over someone else often use the excuse that they are defending “victims” to engage in the most shameless bullying.

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5 min

Culture & Media

A Plea for the Humanities

I’ve often heard people argue a moral case for the inclusion of gender theory, “critical race” theory and other forms of theory influenced by postmodern streams of thought on college…

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20 min

Evolutionary Psychology in the Humanities: Shakespeare’s Othello

“We believe that works of art are shaped by our evolved human nature, by culture and by individual experience. We therefore distinguish ourselves from cultural constructivists who effectively give exclusive…

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Humanities

Conservative Critiques of the Liberal Arts: A Reply to Ben Shapiro

Servile Oblivion and the End of Education

Enlightenment Contested

The Humanities Scholar as an Advertiser: A Reflection on Academic Language

The Case of Lindsay Shepherd and What It Teaches Us about How Learning Occurs

A Plea for the Humanities

Evolutionary Psychology in the Humanities: Shakespeare’s Othello

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