Present at the launch of the Centre for Computational Social Science and Humanities at NUS today were (from left to right) CSSH Deputy Director Assoc Prof Dandan Qiao from NUS School of Computing; ...

More than two dozen contributors to the manual criticized the deletion of a chapter on climate science by the Federal Judicial Center. By Karen Zraick More than two dozen contributors to a widely used ...

Since the Ronald Reagan era, we have heard arguments that studying liberal arts or the humanities is a waste of time or, at the very least, hardly the most sagacious path for college students to ...

Meredith Martin, professor of English and director of the Center for Digital Humanities, and Peter Henderson, assistant professor of computer science and the Princeton School of Public and ...

Since humanity's earliest days, people have looked up at the stars, using science, art, religion, philosophy, mathematics, and any other tool at their disposal to better understand the complicated and ...

In 1964, an influential report identified a disquieting trend in academia. “Increasingly during the past few years,” it began, “concern has been expressed about the condition, in this country, of ...

Across disciplines, alumni point to critical thinking, ethical reasoning, adaptability, and empathy as core strengths developed through humanities coursework. From law and medicine to climate ...

More than 20 percent of Americans express little or no confidence in scientists to “act in the best interests of the public,” according to Pew’s latest polling. Just 13 percent gave that answer in ...

When the polls opened Nov. 4, some 130 University of Virginia undergraduate students fanned out across Charlottesville’s nine voting precincts armed with clipboards and paper surveys to ask voters to ...

Tufts’ current and former political science professors Jeffrey M. Berry, James M. Glaser and Deborah J. Schildkraut published their new book, “Everyday Democracy: Liberals, Conservatives, and Their ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as a nation we are hopelessly divided along political lines. But is that division as intractable as our social media feeds lead us to think? As Rebecca Asmo ...