“I wonder if the woke humanities and english departments realize that it is themselves who are to blame for the loss of interest?”
I hope so, as Russia, with half our population, graduates TWICE as many engineers each year (and they use Russian math, so they can actually estimate things in their heads too). Also China graduates 6 engineers for every 1 that the US graduates (same for India) - still a higher rate than the US when adjusted for population.
One could argue that the best barometer of a dying empire is the above, where the offspring of the intellect that created the empire winds up wasting away on Drag Queen Studies and the like.
BUT I understand that the USA produces more Parks Management majors than any other country. Hope they all have to learn spanish so they can communicate with the workers in that field.