"What Are the Humanities?" included the following quotation. John Horgan, professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, wrote: "The humanities are subversive. They undermine the claims of all authorities, whether political, religious or scientific. This skepticism is especially important when it comes to claims about humanity, about what we are, where we came from, and even what we can be and should be."
Do you agree with Horgan's definition of the humanities as "subversive"? Why or why not?