Two articles published this week should make us bemoan anew the continuing decline of the humanities in prestige and popularity, on college campuses and beyond.

We are creating entire generations of ill-educated adults who devalue of what one author has called “the really human things,” and who are monumentally ignorant of history and civics. In sum, we are producing bad citizens.

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