United States: "School, as well as university, accuses Western heritage"

In one of these great ritual sales of the humanist heritage that have punctuated university news in the United States for several decades, the art history department of Yale University has just announced its decision to remove its introductory course in art history, deemed too western-centered, to replace it with four composite courses of "global history". This news is hardly surprising, coming from a university which yielded in 2016 to pressure from petitioning students from the English department claiming to be relieved of the obligation to study the works of Shakespeare or Milton for better be able to devote themselves to the literary production of artists belonging to identified victim categories. To tell the truth, the most astonishing thing is not the abolition of this course, but the fact that it could have survived for so long in the nihilistic trance atmosphere that has raged for several decades in some of the departments of universities.

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