The Death of the Humanities, the Death of the University

Australia’s universities are not special. Their utilitarianism, pragmatism, and unprincipled corporate-style leadership have left our institutions of higher learning bereft of rich learning and valuable research. This is hardly unusual in the modern university.

It is not that good teaching and research are never done–it’s that these are done despite the way higher education is run in this country. As I said, Australia is not a special case. Much of the West has descended into the same pit.