"Old friends bumped into one another, clutching at lattés, trading news, dropping casual references to the 'capitalocene.' A scholar described some new project or life development; her friend nodded, wide-eyed and hypercaffeinated, uttering that trending expression of assent among the grotesquely overeducated: the rapid-fire 'YahYahYah!' All around them, the humanities burned."

Academe's 
Extinction Event

Failure, Whiskey,
and Professional Collapse
at the MLA

"Old friends bumped into one another, clutching at lattés, trading news, dropping casual references to the 'capitalocene.' A scholar described some new project or life development; her friend nodded, wide-eyed and hypercaffeinated, uttering that trending expression of assent among the grotesquely overeducated: the rapid-fire 'YahYahYah!'

All around them, the humanities burned."