Author name: Christopher Newfield

The Boghossian committee’s report on humanistic scholarship claims that the main disciplines have widely subordinated scholarship to politics (Boghossian, “Report”). This has led, they write, to a “widespread deterioration in scholarly standards” ( 5).[1] The report’s categorical judgments, however fudged, cast low scholarly standards as the defining feature of humanistic academia today.  Standards are so […]