Extraordinário texto. Apesar de não ser esse o tema central do artigo, gostei esp. de uma nota de rodapé inicial:
"I suspect that this shared belief in the existence of culture-transcending
truth has something to do with the fact that on many university campuses of the Western world there is now a much higher percentage of Christians among lecturers and students who are connected with the ‘hard’
sciences, or sometimes with mathematics and business, than among lecturers and students who are connected with
the arts and the social sciences. More commonly, I think, scientists are inclined to hold that their own disciplines,
and perhaps some other hard sciences, deal with truth, but that anything outside such domains has a much looser
connection to truth. In short, many scientists are modernist with regard to their own disciplines, and postmodernist
elsewhere, not least in the domain of religion."

No que às Humanidades diz respeito, tenho cada vez mais a convicção de que o seu declínio actual - e irreversível, IMHO - se deve aos excessos do pós-modernismo e do ateísmo radical na Academia. Como se costuma dizer, não se pode deitar fora o bébé com a água do banho, sob pena de se ficar perante o vazio...