I agree with the author the decline of the humanities is about a narrative winning out on the other. But what about what is actually desirable? Is going to the

I agree with the author the decline of the humanities is about a narrative winning out on the other. But what about what is actually desirable? Is going to the university to learn something that is only indirectly useful as a job skill something fundamental, or is it an historical aberration? Depending on how you define it, the "humanities" are not going to die. The top comment at the time of writing is how analysis lives on even on YouTube. But is it something that has to be subsidised, or that we have to encourage students to spend precious years and frankly absurd amount of money in?