https://www.newrepublic.com/article/114392/christina-paxson-president-brown-humanities-can-save-us
What is important in this discussion in my opinion is increasing the exposure of everyone to the humanities rather than increasing the share of the educated with a humanities major or concentration, i.e. the value of a liberal education.
Tags: interdisciplinarity
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Am 22. August 2013 um 11:58 Uhr
There was another piece on the topic in The New Republic a few weeks back, which suggests that there seems to be some editorial interest at work in keeping this topic on the agenda:
https://www.newrepublic.com/article/113763/why-we-need-liberal-arts#
And, for another, perhaps more controversial stance, see:
https://on.tnr.com/13FMTHa