"In my old age, I hope to found a new university, called rather unimaginatively the New University, with funding from one or another imprudent billionaire (a prudent billionaire would turn me down). In contemporary universities and colleges there is often a division among the natural sciences, social science and humanities. In my New University, there would be only two faculties: natural sciences and the humanities. The social sciences would be abolished.
"Social science was—it is best to speak in the past tense—a mistake. The dream of a comprehensive science of society, which would elucidate 'laws of history' or 'social laws' comparable to the physical determinants or 'laws' of nature, was one of the great delusions of the 19th century."
Michael Lind in The Smart Set makes a modest proposal.
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