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I find it very ironic that to solve this conundrum, we need to apparently keep even more people from learning these skills? If more people read & knew history, we could avoid ~90% of the problems in this society. Advocating against the humanities is a giant red flag, & I don’t accept this argument

What your author ascribes to an agenda, is simply progress. Which the author is plainly against in some form, & citing Ruffo as anything but a racist is a giant red flag Defunding the humanities is leading to a crisis in this country, where very few people lack critical thinking skills.

I wish you'd given this to someone with a much smaller chip on his shoulder and a lot more experience. The guy quit before even getting tenure. If you haven't been a multiple PI on grants, refereeing, campus selections, etc., you just don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

Bro

Good point. The headline frames the article unfairly I think.

<throws overripe tomato in the Atlantic’s direction>

The clickbait headline is misleading. The article is much more nuanced. There’s a great quote in it from Mellon that clearly nails them on this ideological agenda. So what the author is saying is not so far-fetched. Their scholarly interests now are indeed pretty limited and utilitarian.

Atlantic? Where do you find your these morons? Why all the 3 named pompous asshole suddenly?

This article is so myopic and ridiculous in its ignorance of the general context (gee, what othermajor humanities funder stopped funding this past year 🤔) that I’m considering pulling my subscription if you can’t distinguish well researched stories from reactionary clickbait.

You should be embarrassed, but somehow you are not. I hope this convinces people you're done now.

They would have detested most of this modern scholarship btw.

Great band, though.