Liner Note 52. Fighting for an Interdiscipline: The Humanities' Future

New Haven People's Center on April 18, 2026 I gave this talk at the 45 th Anniversary Conference of the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, April 17, 2026. Many thanks to the organizers, speakers, audience, and my co-panelists. I’m going to talk about humanities ambition in a time of diminished authority for its fields, and I’ll say we need big increases in our ambition in response. But I…