We noted here once before that the Harvard faculty statement deploring anti-Semitism on campus was overwhelmingly signed by faculty from STEM fields, with very few coming from the humanities and social sciences—more evidence of my thesis that higher education is slowly bifurcating into two separate universities—STEM, and humanities/social science, the latter of which is doomed to wither. (Evidence for this coming in a future Daily Chart.) Turns out Columbia University offers a perfect lab experiment, with dueling faculty petitions. And here’s the unsurprising breakdown:
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