University of Austin

"Anyone who has the privilege of going to the new University of Austin has been given a great gift. They've been given the chance to attend a new institution totally committed to the great spirit of free endeavor upon which so much of human progress rests." -- Hon Tony Abbott AC, the 28th Prime Minister of Australia uaustin.org/apply

Thanks to the The Times of Israel for the write up on the University of Austin. Doors open next week! https://lnkd.in/gT9z2Pw8

"Some of the students who spoke to The Times of Israel expressed a desire to be part of a select group of kindred spirits, while also being critical of the sort of peer pressure and ideological and political homogeneity they say exists on US campuses today." "'I am excited to be with like-minded people who are passionate, convincing, and set in their beliefs,' Sam Indyk, 18, told The Times of Israel in a video interview over Zoom this spring. 'We need intellectual pluralism, not mob dynamics, and more discussions.'" "Indyk, the eldest of eight kids from a Jewish family in the Washington, DC, area, said he heard of the university through his father and looked into applying 'immediately.'" https://lnkd.in/eU3Jxkqt

An article I wrote with Niall Ferguson on the University of Austin’s Intellectual Foundations program for The Atlantic. https://lnkd.in/gDbHCjdh

🎙️Episode 20 of Ed on the Edge is LIVE! I sat down with Joe Lonsdale, the Managing Partner of 8VC who has founded dozens of businesses including Palantir Technologies, Addepar, and OpenGov Inc. Joe is also the Chairman of the Board of the University of Austin and the founder of The Cicero Institute. Subscribe to Dash Media and enjoy this fantastic episode! Link in the comments ⬇️

Last week brought our Founding Faculty to campus together for the first time. Read more in the latest edition of Inside UATX, our Substack newsletter. https://lnkd.in/esgSrfbd

In a new piece in Newsweek, Professor of Political Philosophy Alex Priou makes the case for tech-free classrooms: "An old-school classroom gives students no choice but to read more closely, discuss more carefully, and think more boldly. It encourages them to face who they are and what they might become as human beings. And in orienting them primarily to themselves and one another, rather than toward the authority and temptation of screens, it emphasizes the humanity at the heart of all learning." https://lnkd.in/ekcVQ4_A

"Life of the Mind: Summer Edition" brought liberal arts and entrepreneurship programs taught by UATX professors to ambitious high schoolers from 19 states and five countries. Watch our students explain what the University of Austin is all about.

One month. Four weeks. 31 days. Our high school summer program set the tone. Our Founding Freshmen start class September 9. Don't miss a moment: uatx.substack.com

My latest essay is an attempt to sketch out a nice, middle way on the topic of nationalism vs. cosmopolitanism. Thanks to Modern Age for publishing it! #nationalism #nation #cosmopolitanism #politics #politicalphilosophy https://lnkd.in/gF8yUxi8