Middlesex in The Times

Hat tip, ANTHEM:

“Money isn’t at the heart of this. Philistinism is. Modern politicians — and the bean-counting bureaucrats now running universities — regard the arts and humanities as being of secondary significance, or even as unnecessary luxuries. And by the arts and humanities they don’t just mean those supposedly soft subjects such as music, drama, film and visual art. Also in the firing line are history, classics, philosophy, literature and languages.”