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Humanities
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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…
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.
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…
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…