"The humanities have destroyed themselves over the past 30 years‚ Through an obsession with European jargon and a shallow politicization of discourse, the humanities have imploded‚ There’s hardly a campus you can name where the most exciting things that are happening on campus are coming from the humanities departments‚ I think the entire profession is in withdrawal at the moment. This is a national problem. It’s not just a Harvard problem."
I fear she’s right.
The Dish 