By and large, the “humanities” in Academia today no longer deserve protection or respect; nor, increasingly, does it seem worth the candle, not to mention decades of debt peonage, to get a college education.
Welcome to the new Dark Ages; and, just as monasteries once preserved the texts of ancient Greece and Rome, we will have to do whatever it may take to keep real libraries from crumbling (or burning), and free thought itself protected from the myrmidons (yo, Homer!) of Big Tech, Big Pharma and the “woke” Blue Guards.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/princeton-greek-latin-requirement/619136/