Hamas Is Outsourcing Terror to Avoid Israeli Retaliation. The U.S. Should Respond with Sanctions
Creating plausible deniability.
June 16, 2020
How Renaissance Humanists Can Help Resolve the Crisis of Liberal Education
In their view, religion both complemented and restrained the humanities.
On today’s college campuses, many professors who teach the humanities and social sciences have lost faith in the liberal arts as they were once understood, and even the defenders of these fields of study often resort to such vague justifications as the cultivation of “critical-thinking skills.” Arguing that the case for liberal education that was commonplace a half-century ago is no longer convincing, James Hankins urges modern-day humanists to look to the example of their 14th-century predecessors. Hankins begins by explaining what set these early Renaissance thinkers apart from the ancient Greeks and Romans whose work they so admired:
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Europe Should Join the U.S. in Stopping Iran’s Nuclear Program
Tehran is violating restrictions that predate the 2015 nuclear agreement.
How Turkey Fans the Flames on the Temple Mount
In collaboration with the local branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Remembering Irving Howe’s Abilities as a Literary Critic and Observer of the American Jewish Predicament
Isaac Rosenfeld and the plight of the young American Jewish intellectual.
How Renaissance Humanists Can Help Resolve the Crisis of Liberal Education
In their view, religion both complemented and restrained the humanities.