Salve! I too tend to react negatively to summary judgment of humanities degrees. But the truth is that you and I and hogu's wife are outliers. For most humaniti

Salve! I too tend to react negatively to summary judgment of humanities degrees. But the truth is that you and I and hogu's wife are outliers. For most humanities PhDs, those judgments are accurate. In fact, part of the reason I mastered out of my English PhD program was that the faculty and other students just weren't particularly bright (the other part was the academic politics). The humanities themselves are absolutely crucial subjects that all smart people should study -- but most people who study them aren't very smart.