Jeff Bilbro talks with Chad Wellmon about the arguments in a new book that Chad wrote with Paul Reitter, <a href='https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo81816415.html'>Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age</a>. They discuss questions such as: Where did the humanities come from? Why do they always seem to be in crisis? Can we find a hospitable institutional home for humane learning?

Jeff Bilbro talks with Chad Wellmon about the arguments in a new book that Chad wrote with Paul Reitter, Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age. They discuss questions such as: Where did the humanities come from? Why do they always seem to be in crisis? Can we find a hospitable institutional home for humane learning?

Jeff Bilbro talks with Chad Wellmon about the arguments in a new book that Chad wrote with Paul Reitter, <a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo81816415.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age</a>. They discuss questions such as: Where did the humanities come from? Why do they always seem to be in crisis? Can we find a hospitable institutional home for humane learning?

The Humanities' Permanent Crisis

COVID-19 has been apocalyptic for higher education, and indeed for our nation as a whole; it has intensified pressures already threatening liberal arts education. Our conversations aim to enable colleges and universities across the country to learn from one another in addressing today's challenges and opportunities, and they will encourage these institutions to draw on the rich heritage of the liberal arts tradition, while acknowledging its historical limitations, in shaping their responses. Our goal is to think and talk in public about the enduring value of the liberal arts for the particular concerns and challenges of our time.

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