From Whatever Happened to Culture by Joseph Epstein:

Where once university English, History and other departments featured classic works – “the best that is thought and said” – they now prefer gender and other exotic studies. If Shakespeare is taught, there is a good chance the emphasis will be on whether he was pansexual or on his role as a running dog of capitalism. Here are some titles of courses on offer for the coming year in the English Department of Northwestern University: “Lesbian Representation in Popular Culture,” “Frankenstein’s Hideous Progeny,” “Madwomen in the Attic – Insanity, Gender, and Authorship in British Fiction,” “Intro to Disability Studies in Literature,” “Medicine, Race, and Gender,” “Black Feminist Theory,” “LGBTQ Art and Activism in the United States.” Not, near as one can make out, a great book in sight. If one is in search of culture in the Arnoldian sense, one is unlikely to find much of it in the contemporary university.