{"id":837,"date":"2016-02-04T15:55:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T15:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/?p=837"},"modified":"2016-02-04T15:55:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T15:55:48","slug":"whats-wrong-with-the-humanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/2016\/02\/04\/whats-wrong-with-the-humanities\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Wrong with the Humanities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Bruce Cole<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is undeniable that, for centuries, the humanities have made important contributions to other fields of inquiry, such as medicine, law, and engineering, to cite just a few. Ideally, university administrators, business executives, foundation directors, policymakers and many others\u2014both in the private sector and in state and federal government\u2014can and should benefit from the knowledge and wisdom embedded in the humanities. Unfortunately, these people are increasingly alienated from studying them in our colleges and universities.<\/p>\n<p>For more, click the link below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"neRf9nyFHG\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2016\/02\/16248\/\">What\u2019s Wrong with the Humanities?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;What\u2019s Wrong with the Humanities?&#8221; &#8212; Public Discourse\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2016\/02\/16248\/embed\/#?secret=aZPEEPYlEs#?secret=neRf9nyFHG\" data-secret=\"neRf9nyFHG\" width=\"450\" height=\"254\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Bruce Cole It is undeniable that, for centuries, the humanities have made important contributions to other fields of inquiry, such as medicine, law, and engineering, to cite just a few. Ideally, university administrators, business executives, foundation directors, policymakers and many others\u2014both in the private sector and in state and federal government\u2014can and should benefit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3878,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[295525],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-erpings-writings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}