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Tangle

The new 'anti-woke' university.

Tangle

Isaac Saul

International News, Politics, Election, Nonpartisan, Us Politics, Local News, News Commentary, Biden, Us Senate, Independent, Us News, Congress, Trump, News, Us House Of Representatives

4.8672 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Last week, a group of donors, scholars, writers and political activists announced the launch of a new college: The University of Austin. The people behind the school say that fundamentally, it will be dedicated to free speech, citing concerns about “the illiberalism and censoriousness prevalent in America’s most prestigious universities.”

The school will go by UATX for short, and is launching a noncredit program called "Forbidden Courses" as a kind of soft launch, which the creators say will encourage “spirited discussion about the most provocative questions that often lead to censorship or self-censorship in many universities," according to The New York Times.

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From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle.

0:40.7

This is Tangle.

0:44.7

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking without all that hysterical nonsense you find everywhere else. I am your host, Isaac Saul, and today we are going to be discussing the University of Austin, not the one at the

1:13.4

University of Texas, but a new university, a new college being championed by some people

1:19.8

who are free speech activists, maybe you'd say. I'm not sure exactly how to categorize them,

1:26.1

but they are political for sure in nature.

1:28.9

And there's a lot of interesting stuff coming out about this university and what it means and what it says about this current moment in our country's history.

1:35.8

And we're going to jump in and discuss it today. Before we do, as always, we'll start with some quick hits.

1:54.2

Music As always, we'll start with some quick hits. First up, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, the longest serving member of the Senate,

1:59.0

announced that he plans to retire yesterday. He was first

2:03.0

elected in 1974. Number two, President Biden signed his $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill into law

2:11.2

yesterday. Number three, Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist host of Info Wars, was found liable on all

2:17.4

accounts for damages in a defamation lawsuit, brought by the parents of eight victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting.

2:24.3

Number four, the judge presiding over Ahmad Arbery's murder trial has rejected a request from all three defendants for a mistrial.

2:32.3

Number five, U.S. journalist Danny Fenster, who was held in jail for six months of hard labor

2:38.1

in military-ruled Myanmar, was suddenly released yesterday. Yesterday, a group of prominent authors, academics, journalists, and philanthropists announced

3:01.0

their starting a new university dedicated to the fearless pursuit of truth, called the

3:06.4

University of Austin. Well, in their called the University of Austin.

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