The Approaching Disintegration of Academia

"The reversion of the humanities and social sciences to religious preparation cannot coexist indefinitely with the Enlightenment mission of STEM instruction. Something has to give."

Well, I hope the author lumps the study of economics into that, a discipline that has a far longer history of tribalism/subjectivism with the addition of pseudo mathematics.

If you think about it, economics provided the original model for subjectivist study in universities. Nobody from the "anti woke" crowd seems too excited by that though, like the author they are terrified that their personal morality might not be quite so moral after all.

Universities should just pick camps and clearly proclaim which side they are on. If you want to do critical theory studies at a university which doesn't believe in objective truth you pick a University on that side.

If you want to study areospace engineering, or biology you go to one of the schools on team objective truth exists.

Or I guess you could do an electrical engineering at the objective truth doesn't exist university although I have a feeling enrollment might not be that high.

This process would be self correcting based on the quality of output of those universities over time.

I am in the choir this article is preaching to, but "disintegration of Academia"? Please. Deconstructionist arguments have been taken up as weapons by minority groups and agitators playing power politics, we all see the game they're playing, but they're more like BB guns than real guns - annoying but not actually dangerous.