Good piece here — and I especially appreciate that Michael Bérubé concludes by noting that the more thorough World Humanities Report didn't get anything like the attention of this report from an "eight-man, two-woman hit squad" who are scared of trans people & think the left killed everything good.
Matthew Cheney
My response to that "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences" is up.
tinyurl.com/y39crkzp
As I say on Facebook, I back-loaded the good stuff, like showing that the authors' account of the 2017 Hypatia controversy reveals them to be unreliable reporters.
On June 5, 2026, the Chronicle of Higher Education published an article in a genre that has unfortunately become all too familiar in that venue titled “Has
