The humanities' failing fortunes meet the comedy of cringe.
on the vanishing narrative of the “midlife crisis.” As reporter Jessica Grose wrote, “Many people said they felt they couldn’t be having a midlife crisis because there was no bourgeois numbness to rebel against. Rather than longing for adventure and release, they craved a sense of safety and calmness, which they felt they had never known.
, and the number of people who can pull off the nice trick of exiting from an English Ph.D. program—or really any humanities Ph.D. program—and getting a tenure-track job is in free-fall.
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