"The authors of the Vanderbilt report lob a ton of accusations at humanities research, but they seem to have read almost no actual works of scholarship (and there’s growing evidence that they seriously mis-represented the claims of what little scholarship they supposedly read)." shorturl.at/h1vjN
The Center-Right's strategy to discredit cultural knowledge draws from the same playbook as Big Tobacco and Big Oil because humanist reason threatens their bottom line.