Tag: Politics

Where Dreams Were Made and Humanistic Visions Forged

Throughout their son’s childhood, Stephen Hall’s parents, both children of sharecroppers, crafted a “deeply humanistic perch” from which he could “view the world.” Though possessing none of the…

U. S. Representative David Price on the Influence of Reinhold Niebuhr

In this excerpt from a podcast with National Humanities Center Robert D. Newman, U. S. Representative David Price reflects on the transformative experience of reading the work of…

Studying the Jacobins and Rethinking my Political Leanings

My humanities moment came in preparing to teach a course on the French Revolution. I am by training a Byzantinist and medievalist, but got my job as a…