if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees
October 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees
lmao, imagine quitting your job as an environmental humanities professor at a fancy liberal arts college to write faux contrarian takes about Miller Lite
May 23, 2026 at 2:15 PM
lmao, imagine quitting your job as an environmental humanities professor at a fancy liberal arts college to write faux contrarian takes about Miller Lite
I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired.
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.
Signed,
a physicist
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.
Signed,
a physicist
December 4, 2024 at 9:23 AM
I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired.
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.
Signed,
a physicist
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.
Signed,
a physicist
Systematically underestimated, first and foremost by people with arts&humanities degrees: the amount of rightwing/conservative powerbrokers with arts&humanities degrees.
Never forget: Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.
which is to say these AI companies aren't looking for humanities scholars, they're looking for the same kind of philosopher-as-rightwing-idealogue that you see eg in that Vandy/Wash U report, or in terfs, etc.
July 5, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Systematically underestimated, first and foremost by people with arts&humanities degrees: the amount of rightwing/conservative powerbrokers with arts&humanities degrees.
They’ll tell you that the arts & humanities aren’t practical and then …
October 7, 2025 at 6:25 AM
They’ll tell you that the arts & humanities aren’t practical and then …
Sick and tired of people wanting to defend “western civilisation” especially when they are also attacking arts and humanities in the universities.
October 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Sick and tired of people wanting to defend “western civilisation” especially when they are also attacking arts and humanities in the universities.
The Fred Durst Society of the Humanities and Arts
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The Fred Durst Society of the Humanities and Arts
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September 3, 2026 at 7:04 PM
The Fred Durst Society of the Humanities and Arts
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“Perform or else,” they say, as they defund rehearsal rooms, close stages, underpay artists, strip the arts and humanities from schools, and call the collapse of cultural infrastructure in the name of white nationalists “the arts for everyone.”
December 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“Perform or else,” they say, as they defund rehearsal rooms, close stages, underpay artists, strip the arts and humanities from schools, and call the collapse of cultural infrastructure in the name of white nationalists “the arts for everyone.”
Any discussion of how a few actors are protesting Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center has to consider how Republicans have tried to slash social spending for the arts — and denigrate the arts and humanities as legitimate fields — since at least Reagan, if not longer.
December 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Any discussion of how a few actors are protesting Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center has to consider how Republicans have tried to slash social spending for the arts — and denigrate the arts and humanities as legitimate fields — since at least Reagan, if not longer.
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
I've signed up to be a mentor through Arts Emergency, which pairs people in creative industries with young people from underrepresented backgrounds hoping to work in the arts. If that's something you are interested in, you can also sign up! They're always looking for mentors: www.arts-emergency.org
Arts Emergency
We help young people get a fair start in the arts and humanities
www.arts-emergency.org
September 22, 2026 at 2:04 PM
I've signed up to be a mentor through Arts Emergency, which pairs people in creative industries with young people from underrepresented backgrounds hoping to work in the arts. If that's something you are interested in, you can also sign up! They're always looking for mentors: www.arts-emergency.org
Also, the entire vocational case for <not> majoring in the humanities/liberal arts rests on approximately no data at all:
👇🎯 Periodic reminder that the right-wing career/salary talking points about the liberal arts are belied by huge piles of data (e.g., news.wisc.edu/new-data-on-...), & the complicity of Democrats & university administrators in repeating those right-wing talking points is a major part of then problem.
February 13, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Also, the entire vocational case for <not> majoring in the humanities/liberal arts rests on approximately no data at all:
I was a member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities when President Obama awarded my friend José Andrés the National Medal of the Humanities and I’m thrilled that President Biden has now awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. So extraordinarily well deserved.
January 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I was a member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities when President Obama awarded my friend José Andrés the National Medal of the Humanities and I’m thrilled that President Biden has now awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. So extraordinarily well deserved.
das ist warum wir die arts und humanities brauchen
February 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
das ist warum wir die arts und humanities brauchen
The arts & humanities really are important to human thriving.
'When Notre-Dame reopened on 7 December, it was thanks, in part, to the efforts of 175 researchers with expertise across a range of disciplines: acoustics, art, data, history, archaeology, anthropology.' Example of why blue-skies research matters for 'real-life' problems we've not yet imagined. 1/2
The academics who helped breathe new life into Notre-Dame
Five years after a devastating fire, the Paris cathedral has finally reopened, with the help of a vast team of researchers
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 9, 2024 at 8:25 AM
The arts & humanities really are important to human thriving.
Humanities programs enrollments are massively down, liberal arts schools that stressed innovative and challenging wide-spanning thinking are dying all around us, and fewer and fewer humanities professor jobs exist.
We’re witnessing a dangerous narrowing of the American mind.
We’re witnessing a dangerous narrowing of the American mind.
November 22, 2024 at 3:07 AM
Humanities programs enrollments are massively down, liberal arts schools that stressed innovative and challenging wide-spanning thinking are dying all around us, and fewer and fewer humanities professor jobs exist.
We’re witnessing a dangerous narrowing of the American mind.
We’re witnessing a dangerous narrowing of the American mind.
The AI bubble is a case study on why tech guys need to also learn the humanities and arts.
February 11, 2026 at 5:02 PM
The AI bubble is a case study on why tech guys need to also learn the humanities and arts.
In which a Yale prof calls for jettisoning humanities to make way for science-only universities.
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
Unyoke the Sciences From the Humanities
Arts and sciences typically cohabitate. Should they?
thedispatch.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
In which a Yale prof calls for jettisoning humanities to make way for science-only universities.
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
This halftime brought to you by the arts and humanities.
February 9, 2026 at 1:31 AM
This halftime brought to you by the arts and humanities.
I said National Endowment for Arts in thread, not Humanities, pardon the error
March 9, 2026 at 3:23 AM
I said National Endowment for Arts in thread, not Humanities, pardon the error
We need to normalize telling people to STFU about things they know nothing about. Starting with people with business degrees yammering about the arts and humanities.
Marc Rowan, chair of Wharton's advisory board, "said faculty members in Wharton [,] as well as the engineering and medical schools, care about academic excellence and research. 'If you are in [Penn's] arts and sciences school,' said Rowan, 'not so much.'" www.inquirer.com/education/ma...
Donor and Wharton board chair Marc Rowan criticizes Penn’s arts and sciences school, drawing backlash
Rowan said faculty members in Wharton, as well as the engineering and medical schools, care about academic excellence and research. “If you are in our arts and sciences school, not so much.”
www.inquirer.com
March 10, 2024 at 4:35 PM
We need to normalize telling people to STFU about things they know nothing about. Starting with people with business degrees yammering about the arts and humanities.