Doctoral students are writing more about power and identity than beauty and tradition. This trend is killing the humanities.

A new study from the American Academy of Sciences and Letters has analyzed humanities and social science dissertations at U.S. universities over the last 65 years. Dissertations shed light on the norms, language, and concepts that are used in scholarly fields.

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