Anything (whether science, the arts/entertainment/movies, education, medicine, statistics) plus politics is just politics.
I wonder if the woke humanities and english departments realize that it is themselves who are to blame for the loss of interest?
The Left’s job is to package Satan’s lies into attractive little packages.
Best way to get a job in the humanities is to learn about Captain Ahab’s first mate in Moby Dick.
Victor David Hanson wrote “Who Killed Homer?: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom” in 1998. It does largely focus on the value of certain students learning the Greek and Latin languages and the cultural wisdom handed down to us from those civilizations. But, more broadly, he explains the decline of the academic world and how education in general had become too politicized. The “cultural wisdom handed down to us from those civilizations” was a bit of a problem for many institutions and so they stopped talking about it and just focused on Lesbian Dance Theory instead.
Women’s studies lost eighty per cent.
Now that the Leftist crazies have taken over the Humanities, the death of those departments is almost assured. Only ever more hardcore radicals will want to spend fortunes to learn anti-knowledge. However, there ARE still jobs for these people at NGOs and non-profits, which seems to be as well funded as ever (thanks to laundering of Government money).
Anything (whether science, the arts/entertainment/movies, education, medicine, statistics) plus politics is just politics.
“All the money is moving to STEM:“
Welp then kiss STEM goodbye.
The traditional job of a humanities education was to teach the students to read complex material with understanding, to speak and write clearly and persuasively, to analyze arguments with logic, and to come to an understanding of human nature.
None of which seems to be happening in the current campus indoctrination centers.
Combination of factors I think.
First, is the humanities’ slide into modernism. Despite wanting to be a writer in the early 90s when I was in school, I refused to major in English because most of what was read was modernist dreck and I was interested in epic poety and Hawthorne.
Second, is that perennial American practicality which makes even conservatives regard the arts with some suspicion. A tendency that factor #1 has only exacerbated. I have been involved in trying to promote new literature in the traditional style since the 1990s and there’s really not a huge amount of interest in it.
The most open crowd I’ve found are homeschool kids. My wife homeschools our kids and we make sure they read good literature. My eldest daughter got on a huge Jules Verne kick and has been reading everything she can get her hands on.
Comrade, communism did not see a value to history and literature either... 🧐
Who in business hires a newly graduated student as a 'consultant'?
If I hire a consultant I hire experience. Let someone else pay for this newbies errors while he learns his trade.
Perhaps I would hire a newly graduated student as a temp worker with proportionate low pay.
I don't care that this guy is a grad of Harvard, he is still wet behind the ears with no experience.
A high priced education does not replace experience.
Maybe if the Harvard grad shows up with a Professional Engineers Licance I might hire him as a consultant but a diploma does not impress me.