Contemporary educated audiences favor subjective scholarship while merely lip-serving research

Evidence

In our own day it is impossible not to notice that, in some fields at least, there is the beginning of a drift away from the academic; the educated public gives subjective scholarship an enthusiastic support which it combines with lip-service to research; and research has itself become discredited in certain contexts, by being too widely extended to inadequate and unimportant subjects. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1711

Categorization

• QUESTION: Written mid-century; worth asking how this forecast maps onto present publics that reward identitarian and subjective scholarship over neutral research — connects to Aziz’s account of race-critical legal scholarship and its reception.