No it’s not. The only way to sustainably fund smart people in the humanities is for the State to provide such funding, and we should be funding a lot more than

No it’s not. The only way to sustainably fund smart people in the humanities is for the State to provide such funding, and we should be funding a lot more than we do today. I find it incredibly difficult to understand why Americans don’t understand that funding for scholars is a solved problem and we should simply be committing more to it. The US has the largest number of universities but could easily support double that, not to mention expanding existing universities, which are mostly well run.