A Vanderbilt University report has ruffled feathers in higher education with its conclusion that social justice politics, rather than knowledge, drives much of today’s humanities scholarship.
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The “State of Scholarship” report faults contemporary history, philosophy, anthropology, music, sociology and literature studies for prioritizing liberal race and gender identity agendas over the “disinterested inquiry” that traditionally guides research.
Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and Andrew Martin, chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis, commissioned top humanities and social science scholars to analyze representative studies for the report.
