Humanities as a field encompass various specialties. These include literacy, history, philosophy, gender, and area studies, medical, computational, environmental, digital, and urban humanities. However, following the 2008 financial crisis, investment and funds in humanities have been falling. This resulted in the closure of some arts and liberal sciences departments. As in the case of the previous historical economic crises, this downturn also seems to curtail democracy. Humanities seem to share the burden of this democratic relapse. It might be a chicken and egg situation, or it might be the fact that the lack of investment in humanities might be one reason for the lack of analysis, the spread of ignorance, showing itself as social fracture, otherisation, and increasing populist tendencies. Regardless, since 2008 many have been discussing both the democratic backsliding and the decline of the funds and interest in humanities education. While immediate solutions may be hard to identif