The de(con)struction of the humanities (and of truth)
Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb on the skeptical tendencies of the postmodern academy
From university to multiversity to demoversity
Alvin Kernan on tectonic shifts in higher education since the 1960s
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 128
FEATURED GUESTS:
Matthew Crawford, Carlo Lancellotti, James Turner, Rod Dreher, Mark Evan Bonds, and Jeremy Beer
The Truth about Harvard
Ross Douthat looks at the effects of postmodern academic theory on the humanities. “The retreat into irrelevance is visible all across the humanities curriculum.”