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The World Humanities Report Demonstrating the vitality of the humanities throughout the world

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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Everyone knows, or else should know, that there is an intimate relationship between the state of academic freedom and the health of a democracy. Judith Butler

Salon recently published a very strange essay by Mike Lofgren entitled “How the death of middlebrow culture led to Trump’s barbarism.” Now, it’s not strange

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Kansas is informing trans people that their driver’s licenses will soon be invalid.

ALT: a close up of the face of jabba the hutt

He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...

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