I wrote about this, and the costs of generational STEM optimism, last year. "It’s created such wreckage to have implied that history and humanities are luxury goods, rather than essential services." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...
Grieving my father's death feels inextricably tangled with grieving the catastrophe overtaking the whole of our research infrastructure.
This already happened for the NEH.
I understand the outrage and shock about the impact on research, but it's crtiical to understand, as ever, that science was never going to get a pass. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...
