This is not what Chad Orzel wants.
I think that he misses another point — that what “the humanities” have gotten badly watered down over the decades, since the New Left took over campi, lacking rigor and polluted by all the “studies” majors.
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This seems related: Ten questions for Camille Paglia. She is a national treasure.
FWIW, my humanities classes were all very good. However, they were by professors who were trained before the Great Purge of the 80s and 90s. It taught me to love the Western Canon, which stretches back to Sumer and Ur, and includes strains of art, science and philosophy from India and China.
Every single professor said that the humanities was a life-long pursuit that did not stop at the end of the term. In fact, professors often call themselves students of their chosen academic path. They encouraged multi disciplinary studies and eschewed pigeon holing. This meant that art students should also study science, and vice versa.
Funny, not one rant about social justice, no hyphenated American demands for equality, just good old classic studies that included the reason why we have equality, individuality and freedom in the first place.