It is time to revive the humanities – Undoing costly misgivings and misplaced systemic priorities

‘For he who leads the contemplative life cannot help influencing the active ... Philosophical and psychological theories, historical doctrines and all sorts of speculations and discoveries, have changed, and keep changing, the lives of countless millions ... in the process of shaping reality – of which fact the enemies of humanism are perhaps more keenly aware than its friends.’ —Erwin Panofsky, Meaning in the Visual Arts (1955)