Interesting questions about universities, the humanities, Western Civ, religion, and the meaning of life, here.

Argues that the research ideal has robbed universities of the ability to address the big questions of metaphysics, and that the humanities can regain the authority to do so by reviving Western Civ.

I'm disposed to agree with a lot of the argument, but I doubt that in the end Western Civ courses will have the galvanizing effect he desires, particularly without recourse to religion; the poststructuralist critiques are too strong now, I think, to allow liberalism to return to the happy place it was in before it ate up its own values.