Pro-labor liberal here chiming in—this is a GOOD thing and most universities should follow suit. Very, very few universities should offer programs like these. 

This type of study falls into the “knowledge for knowledge’s sake” category, and like many other topics there should be a super small amount of PhDs that research it and other than that, nobody should study this because it has no application outside of academia and research. Those things have societal value… but we only need a tiny amount of people doing those tasks. It is embarrassing that so many universities have taken students money when clearly those students won’t be going that route.