The wheels may come off the elite higher education bus A LOT faster than we are bargaining for. At some point, when you constantly signal that what you’re offering is “come here to drink and use AI for $90k per year,” people are going to decide the juice is not worth the squeeze.
The world breathlessley reads a papal encyclical and enters anither week of hotly debating the Odyssey
Yet humanities programs are being closed all over.
I barely survived “telling writers they have to read is gatekeeping,” I don’t think I can live through “telling writers they have to write is gatekeeping”
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I do, personally, think that the decline of English Lit has got a lot to do with it becoming, essentially, a branch of sociology. How to kill a book: read it through an -ism lens. Of course, sometimes it can be useful; but most of the time, it leaves a deadened feeling. Most
An American Pope, three separate conflicts with nuclear states, literacy seemingly destined to become the preserve of a small monastic community - we've arrived in the Canticle for Leibowitz Zone