A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education argues that university administrators and their 19th century social-Darwinian ideology are to blame for the destruction of Humanities degrees at American colleges. I present here a critical reading of the article and outline what I see is really the driving force behind the destruction of the Humanities and why the Planetary University is a lost cause anyways.

While universities are slashing philosophy and literature degrees, philosophia is alive and well at my Halkyon Academy.

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