The Null Hypothesis Regarding the Humanities
Unfortunately life is keeping me too busy right now for blogging, or really much else. But I just thought I would weigh in on the State of the Humanities Report that has been generating discussion . I really don't have the time or capacity to do much in depth thinking or reading about this so genuine apologies if I am missing something obvious or already covered in the report. I just want to have publicly stated something that I think of as the default or null hypothesis of sorts in this realm. Most academic work is bad. ( My own work included .) Most academics are left-wing. ( Myself included .) Nothing about being left-wing especially prevents you from doing bad work or elevates your work's average level of quality. So most of the bad work in academia is done by left-wing people with a left-wing slant. We could change that such that people would be more facially politically neutral or have a more right wing slant or have a variety of political slants in their work. That mig...