Have you been feeling reflective about the Core? Feel like some work of humanities has inspired you so deeply that you’re willing to submit a piece of work for the chance at $200? Were you really busy recently but aren’t anymore? Then you should be partying like it’s 1999 because the deadline for Core Reflections […]

Spring break was going to be so productive.

   Photo Via the New York Times Although Core-crunched Columbians may not realize it, collegiate study of the humanities has suffered through an acute downturn, with fewer and fewer undergrads opting for degrees in the liberal arts. In a recent Times article, Professor Andrew Delbanco, who has had a lot to say about education as […]

In which first-year Dan D’Addario explains the art of the apologia for one’s indulgence in the decadent humanities: For those of us who grew up with a relatively strict upbringing, as I did, freshman year is a time of discovery. Students who, in high school, went to bed nightly at 11 to be well-rested for […]