The Need for a Recovery of the Humanities

To recover the trust of students and their families, Michael S. Roth writes, we must overcome our cultivated insularity.
As the academic year concludes, I find myself looking forward to a break from the onslaught of bad news about higher education in general and the humanities in particular. Another liberal arts college is forced to close for financial reasons; another university humanities program is cut back; a superrich university floats the idea of reducing its support for book publication. More...