The "death" of English departments and other liberal arts fields is not about their obsolescence but about the fact that they're being actively *killed* by institutions that don't value them on principle, not because of any evidence. Glad ppl are catching up. www.nybooks.com/online/2023/...
I write to you with news about the state of the English major at one nonelite, midsize, regional comprehensive private university in New York City. At