The end of the humanities

'The end of the humanities' is clearly a silly title. It risks mockery for several reasons, the most obvious one being that it is easily disproved by history. Tomorrow you will wake up and there will still be humanities. And there may be many tomorrows. But I actually think the end is coming, at least in the United States. The US version of the humanities is dying, if not rhetorically (it's hard to shut them up) then numerically.