The Liberal Arts Weren’t Murdered — They Committed Suicide by Victor Davis Hanson

The Liberal Arts Weren’t Murdered — They Committed Suicide by Victor Davis Hanson

In other words, what is being jettisoned is likely not just history as we once understood it but rather de facto poorly taught “-studies” courses — which sadly become snapshots of particular (and often small) eras of history — designed to offer enough historical proof of preconceived theories about contemporary modern society. The students then are assumed by the course’s end to be outraged, persuaded, galvanized, and shocked in politically acceptable ways. Usually they are just bored, as supposedly with-it professors endlessly regurgitate the esoterica picked up in graduate schools.

When the vaunted VDH speaks, I listen. He nails it on how the PC universities have killed the humanities by boring the students to death with the endless diatribes as discovered through a monotonous Race, Class, Gender lens.