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It's really almost amusing. In the likes of Tenured Radicals, or The Breakdown of Higher Education, the road to King-Slutsky (unfortunately this sounds like a fictional character from a Vonnegut novel) is mapped out with disturbing prescience. Aside from the intellectual pretzels required to call out "genocide" by calling for genocide, King-Slutsky's major and the title of her dissertation tell you all you need to know about how bizarrely separate from any real world Columbia and other such places are. It is important to study the Humanities--but "theories of the imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens” and the “fantasies of limitless energy in the transatlantic Romantic imagination from 1760–1860” is not what our ailing society need right now.

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