The humanities matter.
In 1959 when C.P. Snow famously declared the need for building bridges between "the two cultures" of the sciences and the humanities in order to make the world a better place, the impulse wasn't so much ahead of the curve, but simply wrong.  It wasn't so much that in 1959 few knew how and where to build such bridges.  The separation itself was a line drawn in sand--specious and artificial.

To understand why the humanities matter, we need to wipe out that erstwhile line drawn in the sand that artificially separates the sciences from the humanities; that separates those disciplines deemed empirical and in pursuit of the universal (the "nomological") from those considered speculative (even if analytical) and in pursuit of the idiosyncratic (the singular or "punctual"). [Read more...]

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