Stepping down as the founding CEO of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, Professor Simon Haines shared these welcoming thoughts with the last draft of incoming scholars. 'It’ll be up to you,' he told them, 'to show your generation how to move beyond a trivialising, conformist, divisive and often extremist mindset'

Our research- and rankings-driven universities oblige arts academics to teach their research in order to justify their existence. This makes it very hard to establish coherent, overarching disciplinary perspectives, as opposed to an assemblage of research programs with teaching spinoffs