> "But since then, I’ve been watching the numbers from the Department of Education, and every year, things look worse. Almost every humanities field has seen a rapid drop in majors: History is down about 45 percent from its 2007 peak, while the number of English majors has fallen by nearly half since the late 1990s."

Less people with a strong sense of history?

Less people with a strong sense of words / communication?

While I hate to feel like I'm parroting MSM hyperbole, it's not the humanities that are in crisis. It's the culture's socio-political foundation that's faultering. Perhaps this is why (faux) outrage has replaced discourse?