Celebrating a new university pursuing an old idea

Published November 9, 2021 10:58am ET



A new university, one that does not conform to far-left wokeism, was announced on Monday.

The founding of the University of Austin is to be welcomed. Our colleges and universities have gone from being beacons of free speech, research, and curiosity to propaganda arms of political correctness. Marxism, bigotry, and intolerance have come to define institutions that should be beholden to no ideology — no ideology except, that is, the pursuit of reason and inquiry.

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