2 May 2019
Union’s War On The West
How threatening to some academics is the idea of a program in Western civilisation being taught on their campuses? Enough that it’s worth going to court over. That’s right: the National Tertiary Education Union, along with a staff member from the University of Wollongong, have resorted to going to the NSW Supreme Court to fight the university’s decision to offer
25 March 2019
Trust An Academic To Be So Foolish
Last month the University of Sydney sacked a lecturer in politics who showed his class a swastika superimposed over the flag of Israel. Last week another University of Sydney academic, English lecturer Nick Riemer, had published in The Sydney Morning Herald an article that succeeded in being offensive, insensitive and hypocritical. Riemer managed to display publicly the deep sickness that pervades so many parts
15 June 2018
Australian Unis Deliver Cookie Cutter Degrees
Everything you need to know about about the condition of humanities teaching in Australia’s universities is summed up in what happened last week at the University of Sydney. A hundred academics at the university signed a petition protesting against the possibility that the institution accept a philanthropic donation from the Ramsay Foundation to teach a course in Western civilisation. What’s noteworthy is that
