Dr. Callard is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago and the author of “Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming.” If a group of math students fails to learn the material, that ...

It seems we’ve decided the humanities have less to give the human race — or more modestly, this country’s future — than the sciences. This is a serious mistake. The sciences and the humanities are ...

If we have any hope of resuscitating fields like English and history, we must rescue the humanities from the utilitarian appraisals that both their champions and their critics subject them to. We need ...

F or the past few years, I’ve taught an environmental-humanities course called “Witnessing Climate Change.” I’m a literary scholar and writer, so it’s mostly a writing course, but it also introduces ...

Rice University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. With all the conspiracy theories floating around in 2020 when COVID-19 hit, I wanted to help my students learn to identify and deal ...