Rhowbotham's view is academic

Kevin Rhowbotham (Debate, September 23) is subject to a long standing trend where insecurity in academies makes professors position themselves as righteous moralists fighting for higher ideals against the dark outside world. Read Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game.

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