Aspen Ideas Festival: Do We Need to Rescue the Humanities?
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An Aspen Ideas Festival discussion about the purpose of a college education. The president of Harvard is an historian, and she says the declining prestige of the humanities is a cultural crisis in America. Drew Gilpin Faust quotes Picasso, who said "computers are useless. They only give you answers."
Also featured, Leon Wieseltier, senior fellow in culture and policy at Brookings, and The Atlantic. They spoke June 30, 2016 in Aspen, Colorado.
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