Future of the Humanities

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A piece on the challenges of Big Academic Publishing. Does it want to turn academic writers into robots?

A piece on the challenge of fake news during a pandemic. Might the study of philosophy provide cognitive herd immunity?

Piece for Project Syndicate describing an experiment in student writing about the humanities

Piece on the ABC suggesting Wikipedia should ask for help, not money.

This piece on the ABC uses ideas from the behavioural economist Dan Ariely to point to a threat for the in-depth understanding characteristic of the humanities from Wikipedia's knowledge-for-free business model.

Scary things in store for traditional universities from digital learning techs that will predictably improve on the miseries of teaching by Zoom

An interview about some of my ideas by Project Syndicate.

An exploration of the value of the Humanities in these times of rapid technological change. We need it to overcome our bias toward overconfident experts.