A surge of opinion and analysis argues that humanities faculties and campus expression are under renewed constraint, with critics pointing to limits on syllabi, hiring, and classroom debate. At Harvard, recent editorial commentary frames a rising “anti‑woke” posture as curtailing open discourse; scholars writing on the broader sector warn that the end of the so‑called ‘crisis of the humanities’ has produced new challenges, not relief. The two pieces together document how ideological battles, donor and political pressure, and curricular revisions are reshaping humanities hiring, tenure debates, and campus intellectual norms.