The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) just celebrated its 50th anniversary with a ceremony at the White House. Despite over $5bn in grants to promote innovative research and cultural programs, congressional support, along with federal, state a private funding has dropped significantly.
While society may seem to treasure the humanities and what the study of humanities can lead to, namely allowing one to deal with subjects in a critical and logical manner, advanced communications skills and perhaps most importantly, the ability to reason about what it means to be a human and to question the world we live in, support for the humanities has dropped significantly over the past few decades.
A recent article in The Guardian explores why the humanities and the work of humanities scholar often gets ignored.
