Douthat Interviews Jennifer Frey on A.I. and Liberal Arts as Humanities Enrollment Declines
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Updated · The New York Times · May 21
Douthat Interviews Jennifer Frey on A.I. and Liberal Arts as Humanities Enrollment Declines
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 21
Ross Douthat’s latest “Interesting Times” episode centers on Jennifer Frey’s defense of liberal arts education as colleges face a deepening humanities crisis.
Frey, a philosophy professor, discusses running a liberal arts program that was later gutted, using that experience to frame the pressures on humanities teaching.
The conversation ties that pressure to falling reading habits, declining literacy and shrinking humanities enrollment, trends Douthat says have defined the field for much of his adult life.
A.I. is presented not only as a threat but as a possible catalyst for reviving the kind of broad human formation Frey argues liberal arts education uniquely provides.
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