When one thinks of a hard subject, often what comes to mind are ‘STEM’ subjects, (e.g. math and physics), not the humanities, which are assumed to be more subjective and less rigorous. But such impreciseness also makes the humanities harder in some ways. Objectivity creates boundaries and rules, which can be generalized and repeated. A hypothesis can be falsified. A conjecture can be disproven with a counterexample. As hard as calculus can be, there are immutable rules that underly it, w...
