Fall of the Humanities

..."although Fish finally left Duke in 1992, his influence continues as evidenced by President Brodhead's initial handling of the Lacrosse case in 2006: The radicals, who rallied behind a black prostitute as a symbol of their beloved class warfare against white males, were able to sweep him along  in the tide of multicultural fantasy. White boys from wealthy families -- bad; black female employed in the sex trade -- good. Brodhead should have been fired. Instead he is co-chairman of a prestigious panel peddling the importance of humanities studies that no longer exist.

Brodhead is not simply a fraud. He is a witting player in the collapse of scholarship, easily observable in a conversation with college graduates of the past four decades, or by the absence of ethics and morality dramatized regularly in American society. But the audacity to list the subjects that comprise the humanities as we knew them, and omit the courses offered today that have undermined, or in many cases replaced them, is a testament to the abandonment of the lessons they were designed to teach. What's left is not worth the effort to preserve"...

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/07/the_fall_of_the_humanities.html