With Stories Like These, Who Needs Talent? Part I: A Cautionary Tale for Writers
It's about the decline in literature, in both its composition and its teaching, and the reasons for it.
I recall, way back when I was a graduate student in English [that was in the late 1970's], that neo-Marxist ideology was beginning to take over humanities departments at universities and the quality of the scholarship and its product were beginning to suffer. That's when I made the shift to theology, as I rightly surmised that, as religion tends to run about ten years behind society, I had some time before neo-Marxism would infect Protestant theology.
The result of neo-Marxist humanities? This:
University of Wisconsin campus pushes plan to drop 13 majors — including English, history and philosophy
The result of neo-Marxist Protestantism? This:
The Percentage of Protestant Americans is declining