The Importance of Humanities and Social Sciences in a Time of Troubles

humanities and social sciences are now essential more than never to build human consciousness in our historical period a time of troubles. These areas not only are always had been as my colleague Stephen Greenblatt showed essential for the understanding of who we are, what we want and what we don't want but it's more important than ever today. We need more than ever to know what we are doing and where we are because the speed of what you are we are doing is truly unprecedented.