Russell Berman, professor of German and of comparative literature and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses how a new paper's findings that the job market for English PhDs may be even worse than people realize was very consistent with the recommendations of a Modern Language Association task force.

The Interview guests include Richard White, Stanford professor of history, and Leslie Berlin, project historian of the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford, on how past economic booms and busts have shaped the Bay Area.

Erik Steiner, creative director of the Spatial History Project at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis Operations, writes about his findings from a coin-counting experiment that crowd wisdom is vulnerable to at least three major factors: skill, diversity, and independence.

The Cantor Arts Center received the largest of recent Warhol gifts from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, which is ending its third and final round of a record-breaking program of donations.