This effectively discourages the public intellectual and ensures that academics write only for their colleagues. Slaman Rushdie would probably be struggling to scrape enough points together to make the Active Researcher's List. Our dean, who embraces the new university, recently issued a paper called Normative Aims for the Faculty of Arts. From now on, research in our faculty will be grouped under a handful of topics. Areas of strength will be better for grant applications.
Individual research belongs to the past.
That's the glitch for the bean counters. Humanity, just like the humanities, is a problem.