My response to that "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences" is up.
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As I say on Facebook, I back-loaded the good stuff, like showing that the authors' account of the 2017 Hypatia controversy reveals them to be unreliable reporters.
I *so* wish that awesome World Humanities Report had gotten even one percent of the attention it deserved. Kudos to Sara Guyer and CHCI for putting it together-- over six years!
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Between the spike in suicides in ICE concentration camps and the outbreak of Ebola enabled by the dismantling of USAID, I'd say the Musk-Miller agenda is proceeding precisely as planned
In the history of big media, has there ever been a bigger grifter than Bari Weiss?
OK, I have been roused from my dogmatic slumber, and I'll have a response to that awful report on the humanities and humanistic social sciences tomorrow in the Pittsburgh Review of Books. Thanks once again to editor Ed Simon!
BREAKING: Supreme Court issues shadow docket ruling holding that Trump's $1.776B slush fund for J6 insurrectionists is unconstitutional unless Alito and Thomas get a cut
On June 5, 2026, the Chronicle of Higher Education published an article in a genre that has unfortunately become all too familiar in that venue titled “Has
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Maybe it's just me but I have the funny feeling that yesterday's Christian nationalist rally in DC was way more antisemitic than a bunch of college students concerned about human rights in Gaza www.washingtonpost.com/religion/202...
Hey, remember ten years ago when Trump destroyed the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts?
“Spewing arrant nonsense about the past century or so of work in the humanities has real-world consequences: who knew?” Michael Bérubé on why (Culture) War is a Racket. pghrev.com/culture-war-...