Ideas of the university.

When intellectual values are no longer paramount, other commitments-say to the professionalized disciplinary pathways that have congealed as the default means of university organization and governance-not only fill the vacuum but seriously limit our imagination.

The arts and sciences: The two cultures and the public face of science.

At a time when the culture of and discoveries by science are clearly in the ascendant, science needs the arts and humanities more than ever. Paradoxically, however, the two cultures-the arts and the sciences-have become increasingly distinct, seemingly ever more orthogonal to each other.