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Obran's banning of gender studies & expulsion of Central European University has excited the right to think big: what if we get rid of the humanities altogether?
Conservatives: Political Correctness is destroying Western Civilization.
Also Conservatives: We'll push for the destruction of academic disciplines that are thousands of years old rather than risk one undergraduate reading Toni Morrison.
It's interesting to contemplate what would happen if the humanities were completely defunded (as some on the right want). A few canonical writers would continue to be read (Shakespeare, Austen & Dickens) but vast majority of classical canon (i.e. Horace or Pope) would disappear.
Ironically, the main effect of abolishing humanities would be disappearance of writers who are backbone of conservative thought. I mean, people will continue to read Dickens for pleasure but few will pick up Samuel Johnson or Pope or Burke unless required to do so.
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