Since humans have been able, we have used philosophy, literature, religion, art, music, history and language to understand and record our world and its people. Rightly so, the humanities can be described as the study of how people process and document the human experience. However, higher education is stuffed with overpaid administrators squeezing every ounce of efficiency out of lecturers and focusing on the ‘profitable’ areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The humanities could be at risk of being wiped out and this, for no plausible reasons. Politicians and corporates at times claim that the humanities do not matter and ironically by no coincidence, they are the same people who think of us only as workers and consumers, not as citizens or individuals. It is the wealthy who insist that we should seek only to work: we don’t need the humanities, they tell us, all we need is to labour in a marketplace that will enrich them, not us. Liberal arts...