I found Ben Taub's piece on Wirecard to be a lot less satisfying than John Lanchester's similar article in the LRB last year (https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n15/john-lanchester/fraudpocalypse). Lanchester's article was clearer and did a better job pointing out the absurd humor of this whole affair.
Conversely, I liked Heller's piece on the decline of the humanities major in colleges. This isn't exactly a new topic but I think he did a great job synthesizing the issue compared to other coverage I've read on it. I do think that it over-indexed on Harvard compared to the more typical American college.
As an English major with an interdisciplinary humanities focus, I could not bear to actually read Heller's piece as the click-bait title alone suggested the many versions of the "humanities in crisis" theme over many decades. Thanks for the succinct summary and permission to skip it so that I could instead read a new edition of Charles Beadle's Dark Refuge (1938) -- because there are other reasons to major in English.
I found Ben Taub's piece on Wirecard to be a lot less satisfying than John Lanchester's similar article in the LRB last year (https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n15/john-lanchester/fraudpocalypse). Lanchester's article was clearer and did a better job pointing out the absurd humor of this whole affair.
Conversely, I liked Heller's piece on the decline of the humanities major in colleges. This isn't exactly a new topic but I think he did a great job synthesizing the issue compared to other coverage I've read on it. I do think that it over-indexed on Harvard compared to the more typical American college.
And Emre's consistently great.
As an English major with an interdisciplinary humanities focus, I could not bear to actually read Heller's piece as the click-bait title alone suggested the many versions of the "humanities in crisis" theme over many decades. Thanks for the succinct summary and permission to skip it so that I could instead read a new edition of Charles Beadle's Dark Refuge (1938) -- because there are other reasons to major in English.