Subordinating the Humanities’ Scholarly Enterprise to Political Goals (opens in new tab)

“In our view there are several worrying tendencies in contemporary academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, all of which reflect, to varying degrees, a distinctive form of politicization in which the scholarly enterprise is taken to be subordinate to, or in the service of, political (social or moral) goals beyond the advancement of knowledge and understanding.” That is from a recently released “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social S...