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By Anthony Esolen, The American Spectator, February 27, 2026
As English departments trade wisdom for ideology, students quietly exit — and the great books go with them.
I have recently seen a study showing how badly English literature has fallen from its old, prominent place in the academy to near irrelevance: only 1 in 60 college students choose it as a major. Some blame a resurgent utilitarianism. “What can you do with your degree in Gender Studies?” asks the would-be conservative, snorting. “You, or rather your parents, spent a couple of hundred thousand dollars for that? What were you thinking? And you expect me to continue to bankroll your student loans, or even to forgive them, sticking everybody in the nation for the bill for your own stupidity? Pay it yourself.” Meanwhile, young men especially look at what’s on offer at college and decide instead that they can make a good living, and a lot sooner, doing things: wiring houses, laying pipe, installing new roofs, and so forth. If they want to develop their minds, and I urge them most vehemently to do so, they can read books on their own, as people once did. ….
