The humanities are in crisis, as readers of Quadrant will be only too aware. What was once the jewel in the crown of scholarship in Western civilisation has become a pedagogical sheltered workshop in our universities, totally dedicated to promulgating anti-Western, anti-liberal, anti-democratic and (literally) anti-human ideologies. This situation has recently attracted the attention of the media and the federal government, which has proposed changes to course fee structures that are intended to dissuade students from enrolling in what have become useless if not in fact pernicious degrees in the humanities, arts and social sciences. Unfortunately, the intensity of the…