Priyamvada Gopal: Are the humanities in crisis?
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The future of the humanities has become a new frontier in the culture wars. But are they really in crisis? Priyamvada Gopal, who is a professor of English at Cambridge and a scholar at Princeton, joins Ellen Halliday to discuss the assault on the humanities, and why we should defend them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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