We Need to Build Actual Political Support for the Humanities (Guest Post)

From Tunnel Mtn, Banff on June 6, 2026 By Asheesh Kapur Siddique, Associate Professor of History, UMass Amherst This is the second of the talks from the CHCI panel, "The Humanities We Can Build Right Now" in Banff, Alberta. Chris Nealon’s is here , my introduction to the panel is here . Society needs the cultural knowledge that the humanities produces in its research and disseminates in its…