Well Worth Reading

Here are links to a wide variety of current periodical articles and essays (and reviews) on topics relevant to Humanities faculty.

Why We Love Fiction
What lies beneath (about Beccadelli's The Hermaphrodite, 1425-26)
Latitudes not Attitudes: How Geography Explains History
Abraham’s Progeny, and Their Texts
What Columbus Day Really Means
Tracking down Roman emperors
Higher Expectations: What are colleges for? Research, economic advancement, or making students more interesting?
No Heaven for Suckers (about Niccolo Machiavelli)
Brother from the Richmond Planet
Journey to Ithaca
Antichrist (on Nietzsche)
Storytelling 2.0: When new narratives meet old brains
Antony Beevor in defence of history
A Science of Literature? Great Idea, So Long As We Get Actual Scientists Involved
A Sioux War Chief and His Many Enemies
How Did God Get Started?
Nasty, brutish and not that short: Medieval warfare was just as terrifying as you might imagine
Tea and Antipathy: Did principle or pragmatism start the American Revolution?
Two Cheers for Nature: Behavior may come naturally, but that doesn't make it good
Renaissance Fashion: The Birth of Power Dressing
Measuring hell: Was modern physics born in the Inferno?
West Is Best? Why Civilizations Rise and Fall
What Words Are Worth: In defense of the humanities
Tyranny for the Commons Man
When Computers Leave Classrooms, So Does Boredom
A conversation with Leon Kass
Why is There Peace?
What IF? (about reading and technology)
Tragic hero: Laurie Taylor interviews Terry Eagleton
On Liberty at 150
Thieves of Pleasure (about Al-Andalus)
Party Animals: Early Human Culture Thrived in Crowds
Too complex to exist
How Neanderthals met a grisly fate: devoured by humans
Ancient warfare: Fighting for the greater good
From the Horse’s Mouth: Pinpointing a home of the first Indo-European speakers
Why Darwin?
Spinning Caesar's murder
Now You See Them : Afghanistan’s Treasures Come to America
Disturbances of Peace (on ancient Chinese poetry)
Reading to Live
What's Romantic About Science?: When science became a source of sublime terror
There’s more to Calvin than dourness and asceticism
The Pillow Book
‘Two cultures’ turns 50
Was He Quite Ordinary? (Marcus Aurelius)
Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery
Who Should Own the World's Antiquities?
One World, Under God
The End of White America?
The Founders’ Great Mistake
India’s New Face