Scholars Eric Hayot and Matt Seybold argued the conventional narrative of a humanities “crisis” has passed, but warned that higher education now faces coordinated attacks from political forces and disruptive technologies. Their analysis reframes the debate: the problem is not lack of value but external pressures reshaping funding, public perception, and institutional priorities. The authors examine how politicized critiques and tech-driven changes threaten academic freedom, program funding, and the role of humanities in interdisciplinary research. They urge institutions to defend scholarly inquiry while adapting to new modalities of teaching and public engagement. Humanities deans and provosts will find this a provocation to retool messaging, donor relations, and curricular design to protect humanities scholarship within broader university missions.