The Question Haunting the Vanderbilt/Wash U Report (Opinion)

The Question Haunting the Vanderbilt/Wash U Report (opinion)

A new report criticizes a turn toward politicized scholarship in the humanities. But could it be that a more diverse academy is asking different questions? The recent “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences” opens with a familiar complaint: that contemporary scholarship has become overly concerned with social justice and insufficiently committed to objectivity, rigor and the pursuit of truth.

Oh, The Humanities: Yet Another Worthless Report on Higher Education

A new report meant to critique the state of the humanities at American universities falls flat, as the report’s authors lack the courage of their convictions.