Our data-driven culture bears much of the blame for the decline of the Humanities in higher education.
This op-ed from the New York Times has much in it to admire, about the role of the humanities in the contemporary world, but I especially like this anecdote from it:
“How much do you know about Shakespeare,” I once asked a friend who has committed much of her life to studying the Bard. She replied, “Not as much as he knows about me.” Remember this the next time someone tells you literature is useless.
That is just brilliant.






