Patrick E. Savage

The Vanderbilt Report’s critique of humanistic scholarship is itself bad scholarship and should be corrected or retracted

Vanderbilt University’s “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences” (Boghossian et al., June 25, 2026) argued that humanistic scholarship has experienced “a deterioration in scholarly standards fueled by the substitution of political criteria for properly scholarly criteria...