With Friends like These, the Humanities Don't Need Enemies

[Greyweather]

Enrollment in the liberal arts continues to sink, while academia dithers

by David Clemens

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detai...

"“Mapping the Future,” a 2013 report by Harvard’s spooked humanities division, admits that there may be “a kernel of truth in conservative fears about the left-leaning academy” but goes on to conclude that “one of the major contributions of the Humanities over the past thirty years has been...revealing the extent to which culture serves power, the way domination and imperialism underwrite cultural production, and the ways the products of culture rehearse and even produce injustice.”

Do tell. Come for the great novels, stay for the leftist ideology. Except students are not staying, and what amazes me is how the humanities professoriate fails to recognize its own culpability."

[Marina]

It's OK. They're too busy developing Social Justice degrees.

[Diane]

Thank you, Greyweather, for leading me to read this post.

[Greyweather]

Diane wrote: "Thank you, Greyweather, for leading me to read this post."

You are welcome.