Humanities

The Grind
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What my failed sell-out attempts have taught me

Chunhua Yu
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Feb. 15, 2023
Humor
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Non-STEM majors considered endangered species at the career fair

Eric Heng
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Oct. 19, 2022
Featured
A woman sits at a computer looking at a photo of sunflowers.

The archive designed to be destroyed: Inside the campaign to save Ukraine’s digital footprint

Carolyn Stein
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Aug. 17, 2022
News
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Stanford radio show ‘Philosophy Talk’ recognized as 2021 New York Festivals Radio Awards Finalist

Max Benabou
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Oct. 12, 2021
Opinions
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Opinion | How much of the Canon do we cancel?

Zora Ilunga-Reed
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April 12, 2021
Opinions
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Opinion | Can we read historical texts meaningfully?

Kamil Aftyka
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April 5, 2021
Opinions
In this column, Zora Ilunga-Reed reflects on her decision to study philosophy. (Photo: L.A. CICERO/Stanford News Service)

Opinion | Guilty humanities

Zora Ilunga-Reed
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March 30, 2021
Opinions
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On Stanford’s Nobel Prize coverage and community

Melina Walling
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Oct. 21, 2020
News
Dillon Gisch (left) and Danny Smith (right) each won one of 24 Rome Prize awards for residential study in Rome, Italy. (PHOTO: Catherine Teitz, R.H. Harrison-Smith)

Graduate students Dillon Gisch and Danny Smith win Rome Prize

Matthew Turk
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Aug. 20, 2020
Op-Eds
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The power of the petition

Mac Taylor
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May 11, 2020
News
Reginald Dwayne Betts discussed his work “Felon: Poems” as well as his journey from prison, then to poetry and finally to the law. (Photo: ELLA BOOKER/Stanford Daily)

Reginald Dwayne Betts talks his journey from prison to poetry, law

Ella Booker
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Feb. 11, 2020
Opinions
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The future of the major means equality of the major

Kirsten Mettler
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Feb. 6, 2020
Opinions
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What Stanford history will teach you

Elizabeth Lindqwister
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Dec. 2, 2019
Opinions
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The fiction surrounding humanities

Christian Martin
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Oct. 30, 2019
The Grind
Considering she has only been at Stanford for a few weeks, Katie Buntic has received a few too many questions about her job prospects as an English major. (Photo: Pexels)

Please stop telling me I’m going to be unemployed

Katie Buntic
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Oct. 30, 2019
Columnists
Columnist Vamsi Varanasi considers intellectual curiosity after observing bubbles in a cup on a flight. (Public Domain Pictures)

Bubbling questions

Vamsi Varanasi
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Oct. 9, 2019
Opinions
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How literature died for me

Emily Elott
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Sept. 27, 2019
Opinions
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Gadfly, Midwife, Electric Ray

Anat Peled
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Sept. 27, 2019
News
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Former director of the Humanities Center Caroline Winterer embarks on new chapter of research

Cooper Veit
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Sept. 24, 2019
Life in Lore
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Life in Lore: History—and students—at work

Melina Walling
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June 11, 2019
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