https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1457689514902654980
Everybody's making jokes and references to Accepted but real heads know that this is straight out of Road Trip
Our Forbidden Courses summer program invites top students from other universities to join us for a spirited discussion about the most provocative questions that often lead to censorship or self-censorship in many universities.
Ok, so some phrenology debate.
Can't wait for the state legislature to mandate that UT and A&M accept these as transfer credits
You can't forget Alex Jones, Austin's native son
:alex-supplements:
the lit department only gets to read ayn rand and ben shapiro novels
He's the original beautiful generals guy, ofcourse he became a Trumper eventually.
"So class, what is the symbolism in the multiple recurrences of the description of patriots as a 'bear of a man'...NO, it is a term of heterosexual admiration of a fellow patriot! It is a clever inversion of the Russian Bear, applying it to the rugged masculinity and heterosexuality of these stalwart defenders of capitalism!"
It's not accredited, doesn't confer degrees, and doesn't have a physical campus, if that's what you mean.
University of Austin is a proposed liberal arts college to be located in Austin, Texas that will begin accepting undergraduate students in 2024.[1] Its founding president is Pano Kanelos, formerly the president of St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe), who announced its creation on November 8, 2021 in an article published in the Substack newsletter Common Sense with Bari Weiss.[2] Its founding faculty fellows include Peter Boghossian, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Kathleen Stock.[3]
Literally just a bunch of Intellectual Dark Web grifters trying to remain relevant.
Oh damn! They even got Pinker and Heying in there! This is like Lollapalooza for caliper enthusiasts, but it's all headliners!
Can't wait for them to field a football team helmed by a canceled/disgraced coach.
They could get the Wazzu guy who got fired for not getting vaccinated!
Liberty actually has a student body and issues degrees. This is The Great Courses.
The Great Courses atleast will teaches you some stuff, everyone of these classes will be the lecturer complaining about how they go canceled and rehashing their Twitter arguments.
Get the hell out of my turn you fucking weirdo
When Keeping Austin Weird Goes Wrong
I've unironically thought about trying to start a new university that fixes a lot of the problems with higher ed. But getting something like that off the ground would be no small feat.
I am waiting to hear that Concept Jimmy is a professor of statistics that has "The Bell Curve" as one of its textbooks.
