Even as I stood there, contemplating the raw intensity of that free fall, I couldn't shake the realization that my fear of jumping was as vivid as ever.

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Nearly every week, I see newspapers and magazines that seemed fine suddenly going out of business. Or a private equity fund buying up a chain of newspapers that had been serving communities for ...

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But something different has been happening with the humanities since the 2008 financial crisis. Five years ago, I argued that the humanities were still near long-term norms in their number of majors.