Readings

New Humanities Reader (6th Edition)

Readings from the New Humanities Reader are available as PDFs below.

Author	Title	PDF
	Preface and Introduction
Armstrong	“Homo religiosus”
Coates	“The First White President”
Davidson	“Project Classroom Makeover”
Faludi	“The Naked Citadel”
Foer	“Facebook’s War on Free Will” (The Guardian)
Foer	“Mark Zuckerberg’s War on Free Will”
Frederickson	“Selections from Love 2.0”
Gilbert	“Immune to Reality”
Hartman	“The Anarchy of Colored Girls Assembled in a Riotous Manner”
Ho	“Biographies of Hegemony”
Johnson	“The Myth of the Ant Queen”
Klein	“Hot Money”
Lethem	“The Ecstasy of Influence”
Moss	“The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food”
Nafisi	“Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran”
Nelson	“Great to Watch”
O’Brien	“How to Tell a True War Story”
Prum	“Darwin’s Really Dangerous Idea”
Siebert	“An Elephant Crackup?”
Solomon	“Son”
Stiglitz	“Rent Seeking and the Making of an Unequal Society”
Stout	“When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning”
Thurman	“Wisdom”
Tolentino	“Always Be Optimizing”
Turkle	“Selections from Alone Together”
Twenge	“Army of One”
Wartzman	“The New Face of Capitalism”
Watters	“The Megamarketing of Depression in Japan”

Author	Title	PDF
Tolentino	“Always Be Optimizing” (from Trick Mirror, 2019)
Foer	Introduction to World Without Mind
Foer	“Mark Zuckerberg’s War on Free Will” (2017)
Watters	Crazy Like Us (2010)
Armstrong	The Case for God (2009)