I'll soon reach my term limit on the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Humanities Center. These years have been wonderfully gratifying for me. The Center's vision of a connected, curious, and compassionate society is what I've been committed to personally and professionally most of my life. A while back I was asked this question: What's your understanding of the humanities, and why do you care about them? Here's what I answered.
Humanities says to me faces and voices.
It’s disciplines, of