Anthropology bigwig defends her field against attacks that it’s moribund, but actually proves it’s moribund.

Outraged academics reject report they just proved true

The American Anthropological Association is outraged. A little known but illuminating report on the state of scholarship in the humanities and humanistic social sciences, commissioned by the chancellors of Vanderbilt University and Washington University in St. Louis, warns that “every field” the authors studied shows “a deterioration in scholarly standards fueled by the substitution of political criteria for properly scholarly criteria” and “a m…

Anthropology bigwig defends her field against attacks that it’s moribund, but actually proves it’s moribund.

On June 8 I posted about the “Boghossian Report,” in which ten scholars argued that the humanities are becoming overly politicized—to the detriment of universities and their ideals. The politicization came, they said, mostly from the Left, and involved the promotion of “progressive” social justice rather than a search for truth. Click below to read it: This was not a scientific survey but a warning based on a collection of observations and anecd…