It’s a tragedy that Yale English majors don’t have to study Shakespeare

Published October 27, 2017 6:21pm ET



Just as a medical student needs to know how to check blood pressure, a lawyer to write legal documents, and an electrician to change circuits, an English major must know Shakespeare.

But in response to an idiotic student call “to decolonize” its English department, Yale will no longer require its English majors to study Shakespeare.

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