We are squeezed

 We are squeezed from several directions at once.

There is the right-wing distrust of the humanities. There used to be right-wing supporters of the humanities, and, much as we despised them, there was at least a sense of something of value in the humanities appreciated even by those whose motives we distrust.  

There is the left-wing attack on the humanities. This is worse, in some ways, because it comes from within and thus is harder to resist. I remember people in my department saying they felt guilty about teaching literature. I recently saw a book that was pure position-taking, with no substance at all. 

Then there is AI, and the like.  We can manufacture new texts just by combining fragments of other texts in a plausible way. There is be no there there, as Stein would way. 

Then, there is just the relegation of teaching to adjuncts, making the entire work force of the humanities precarious labor.  

Between all these forces, the humanities don't stand a chance.