The case against the hard sciences

Lately, I have come across a number of stories and blog posts that, at least implicitly, knock college degrees in the humanities in favor of degrees in the hard sciences.  An example is this one from the Washington Post:

An old joke in academia gets at the precarious economics of majoring in the humanities.
The scientist asks, “Why does it work?”

The engineer asks, “How does it work?”
The English major asks, “Would you like fries with that?”

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