I recently ran across a couple of old acquaintances, both leaders at minor British art schools. The conversation quickly turned to the lamentable state of arts higher education. Despite their valiant efforts to reform and defend their institutions, the job of training new artists has become a managerial nightmare. Capitalism’s assault on the very idea of art was succeeding. Preparing a new generation for the battle is now harder but more important than ever. If not artists, one of my friends rhetorically inquired, who might ever break the ever-tightening noose of capital?