It’s not liberals who are weakening humanities
An essay in Sunday’s New York Times Book Review noted that “humanities departments thrive at elite institutions (at Yale, for example, History has long been the most popular major, with English usually beating out Economics).”
But the News reported Friday that “undergraduate humanities classes [at Yale] saw their lowest enrollment in three decades last year. … Director of Undergraduate Studies in English Lawrence Manley … noted a decline in enrollment in English classes, as well as in … English majors … from 176 to 149.”
The difference isn’t that the News is closer to...
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