A new Uni set up by Dawkins, A.C. Grayling, Niall Ferguson and others is promising to give a top class education in the arts and humanities for a huge price. This despite the fact that almost all of the profs involved have tin ears for anything really alive in the arts. Students are more likely to gain a series of simplistic prejudices that they can learn, just as easily, by absorbing the popular philosophy of the day. Although they will probably have elevated their crude philosophies to the level of actual reality by the end of their three years.

Only a bunch of stunted intellects would come up with that crap name, too.

(Expect Ian McEwan to join team Enlightenment. Encouraging the students to embrace his dull entertainment-prose as if it is an antidote to the pop nihilism he is raging against.)

Guardian article on it