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Humanities Abandoned Their Subject In The 1990s

Part of why people were warned away from the humanities in the 1990s and 2000s was that many places gave up the field: the humanities became weird and highly political, focused on ideological missions and activism rather than the human heart in conflict with itself, making that advice partly correct for those institutions.

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Speaker

Russ Roberts

Evidence Quote

The humanities became really weird and highly political... In that sense, you got good advice.

Source

Russ Roberts on EducationEconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:10:03 AM

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