Episode 141 [PATREON EXCLUSIVE] -- The (deep breath) "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences"

Earlier this month, Moira ruined Adrian's vacation by alerting him to the "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences", which was presented as a broad and searing indictment of "pathologies" in humanities scholarship, but which turned out upon closer inspection something a lot narrower -- a familiar, if fascinating, assemblage of anti-theory cavils from the 90s and anti-wokeness anecdotes. Here's their conversation about the Report and why this tempest in the academic teapot is worth paying attention to in our current political moment.