On todays Special Edition, managing editor Ari Weitzman interviews staff writer from The Atlantic and former professor at Hamilton College, Tyler Austin Harper about his new story at The Atlantic about the Mellon Foundation and what its doing to higher education. A conversation that spans the bounds from why humanities matter? To Whether or not we should be focusing on them in the first place? All the way to what do we want out of colleges and should we even be learning humanities at these universities?
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