The American Anthropological Association is outraged.

A little known but illuminating report on the state of scholarship in the humanities and humanistic social sciences, commissioned by the chancellors of Vanderbilt University and Washington University in St. Louis, warns that “every field” the authors studied shows “a deterioration in scholarly standards fueled by the substitution of political criteria for properly scholarly criteria” and “a more general repudiation of long-standing ideals of rigor and objectivity” — with anthropology identified as an extreme case.