There is little critical material in the Australian scene dealing with the universities, at least from our foundational position. What mainstream material there is deals with issues like pay and conditions, but never with the existential issue of the survive of these institutions, and whether they should survive. By contrast we find more probing material in America, such as a recent Counter-Currents.com piece that uses the metaphor of a fish rotting from the head down to describe the state of the universities in the US, but Australia and the rest of the West follows. In a nutshell: “Primus inter pares would have to be the universities. Think about it: The American university is where, under the watch of craven administrators, the credentialed grievance-mongers and puffed-up moralists assemble and fine-tune the metapolitical machinery. It is a bedlam of “safe spaces,” pronoun options, and psychotic weirdos elevated as savants. It is where the noxious vocabularies that carry raging pestilences such as “critical race theory,” “transgenderism,” “diversity-inclusion-equity” (DIE), “systemic racism,” “cultural appropriation,” et al. are conjured up and customized at the universities before being carried off to infect the outside world. To experience close-up the fumes of the fish’s rotting head, the best placed to be now is at a university; universities are the fons et origio of much of our current misery.” And, it has been so for some time, at least since the 1960s, with the universities producing all the woke material that now fills the public agenda. It forms the thought patterns that young lawyers, who will be judges are subjected too. And, that is the future. So, you can see my concern with the universities.