Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

TL;DR: In this article, the authors take a historical approach to the rise and fall of the public university and relate its fate to specific developments in public policy, focusing on the United Kingdom and the United States.

TL;DR: The authors argues that it is time for educators to develop a political language in which civic values and social responsibility become central to invigorating and fortifying a new era of civic engagement, a renewed sense of social agency, and an impassioned international social movement with the vision, organization, and set of strategies capable of challenging the neoliberal nightmare that now haunts the globe and empties out the meaning of politics and democracy.

TL;DR: There is increasing interest in establishing the medical humanities as core integrated provision in undergraduate medicine curricula, but sceptics point to the lack of evidence for their impact upon patient care.

TL;DR: This article reviewed empirical studies of empathy in narrative reading in light of contemporary literary theory and neuroscientific studies, and discussed how a closer interplay between neuroscience and literary studies may enhance our understanding of empathy.