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The Wrong Way to Criticize the Humanities
Outside the admissions office at Vanderbilt University. Image: Derek Bruff via Flickr
In early April, a committee of ten professors submitted a “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences” to th...
That’s How Change Happens
Howard Zinn in December 1970. Photo: Ted Polumbaum, courtesy of Myla Kabat-Zinn
Has any single book drawn more Americans leftward over the last half century than A People’s History of the United States? Howard Zinn was not the first to wri...
Good Lives
Arthur Dove, Sun. Image: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Suzanne M. Smith
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The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century by Dagmar Herzog. Princeton University Press, 2024
The Life Worth Li...
The Spirit of ’76
Jacob Lawrence, The “American Struggle” series, Panel #1: “…is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?—Patrick Henry, 1775.” Image: © 2026 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Sea...
Knowledge Collapse
A passage from Bernhard Riemann’s 1859 paper “On the Number of Primes Less than a Given Magnitude,” proposing what would become known as the Riemann Hypothesis. Image: Wikipedia / Boston Review
Eleven years ago, the mathematician Stefaan V...
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