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Welcome to the Quillette podcast, hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan Kay, and by Iona Italia.

Quillette is where Freethought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas

and fearless commentary. You are about to hear a free preview of this week's episode. To hear the

full episode, and to get access to all our podcasts and articles,

visit us at quillette.com and click the subscribe button. And this week we have an unusual story for you

about a controversy at an American university. Now, Quillette does a lot of stories about scandals in higher education, particularly in

regard to scholars who are seeking to stifle free speech and open inquiry.

But this one is something of an outlier, because this isn't a story about so-called

wokeness gone amok on a progressive campus.

Rather, it's something closer to the opposite.

And if you're a reader of the Quillette website, which you should be,

you'll know the story I'm talking about,

which was published on May 16 under the headline,

Is the University of Austin betraying its founding principles?

It's by education expert Eli Aveshai, who runs something called the Mill Institute,

a group that was formerly affiliated with the University of Austin in Texas, also known as

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