We should mostly be talking about the genocide in Palestine: the horrifying toll of bodies, the thousands or tens of thousands of amputees, the bereavement at a national scale, the gutting intergenerational trauma. In the face of all this, we should not have to talk about universities in the West. But nowhere in society has the breakdown of liberal institutions under Zionist pressure been faster or more obvious.

Much can and should be written about Windschuttle’s rotten legacy, which exceeds the bounds of his attacks on Aboriginal Australia. Instead of the comprehensive intellectual thrashing he deserves, this antibiturary is a modest commemoration of the passing of one of our worst thinkers.