Sunday, September 25, 2022

Unhumanistic age

Someone at the Washington Post "Department of Data" was having altogether too much fun naming the graphs in their discouraging article about the collapse of humanities majors in American universities. It may be that results would be different if most students didn't have to go into such debt to get their education, but the results are still a sucker punch. I note that "Religion" is second from last here: majors, never numerous, have fallen by nearly half in just the last ten years. I suppose it make sense, given the rise of the religious "nones." Still...