Universities are partly to blame for the rising intolerance by pushing victim and identity politics, shutting down free speech and creating “safe spaces” for people who may be offended by different views. There are however glimmers of hope appearing. The University of Western Australia has just issued a statement making it clear that it expects that students must be open to a free exchange of ideas that may clash with their beliefs and make them feel uncomfortable. It will however, rightly, not allow the vilification of some groups, which is currently occurring on university campuses. This follows a 2014 statement by the University of Chicago which espoused similar principles and which has since been adopted by a small number of other universities in the United States. PD hopes that other universities will follow suit; remember that today’s university students will be our future leaders, and our society must decide what kind of leaders it wants. [Photograph: Emma Farmer, University of Western Australia Arches, 2006]