The Few, the Proud, the Profs

For an academic field so self-consciously preoccupied with intelligence, the humanities don’t seem to be run very intelligently. Humanities fields now account for only around five percent of all baccalaureate degrees awarded annually, hundreds foreign language programs have been lost, and job market newly minted Ph.D.s is abysmal. “But departments are way too busy being brilliant,” Mark Bauerlein writes, “to sensible managerial.”