I know I already posted an article, but here is another good one

[BillyPilgrim]

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/humanities-and-inhumanities?page=0,4

A cause for both dread and hope for those of us wanting to enter the humanities: Dread for how the system now works and hope for how it should and might work one day (hopefully by the time we - if we survive this season of waiting and get into a phd program - graduate).