"But you know how when someone says “I don’t want to say X, but,” the only important part of the sentence is the part that comes after the “but”? Yes, well."
Sumita Pahwa
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