The Next Founders

Honestly with Bari Weiss
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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “The battle for the survival of the United States of America is upon us. It has not come in the form of traditional civil war. There are no uniformed armies, competing flags, or alternate constitutions. The great showdown is not being fought within the physical limits of a battlefield. It is instead happening all around us and directly to us. It defines our culture, sustains our media, and gives new shape to our public and private institutions—it is remaking the nation before our very eyes.”– Bari Weiss quoting Abe GreenwaldThe forces of justice and progress are in a war against backwardness and tyrannyCancel culture is the justice system of the Un-American Revolution: “step out of line, and you could be next”Tools of oppression that the Un-American ideology uses to deplatform, disinvite, and discredit: Facts replaced by feelings. Excellence is replaced by equity. Rule of law was replaced with the rule of the mob. Continue reading for more examples.“The Coalition of the Sane” – an allegiance where disagreement doesn’t result in cancellationPreview of the 10 points of advice Bari Weiss gives to the Future Founders of America:Defend freedom of speech – The tool that guides us in the search for truth. Be public and vocal in rejecting claims you know to be false. Cowardice is contagious, but so is courage.Use your own eyes and ears – Narratives work because they are easy and digestible. Facts are just too stubborn to neatly fit into narratives. This is why you must seek out your own truth, and do your own research. You don’t need to be an expert to form your own opinion.Refuse to submit your friendships and relationships to political litmus tests – The beauty of America is that there are so many realms of life (love, art, friendship) located outside of politics. Don’t submit to totalitarianism. Don’t forget what it means to be human. Not everything is political.SEE THE 7 OTHER CALLS TO ACTION BELOW

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There are nearly 4000 universities in the U.S.. Many of them have billions of dollars in endowments and histories that go back to well before the country's founding. So you'd be forgiven for thinking that it would be a bit ridiculous to try and compete with those Goliaths. 

But that's exactly what the new University of Austin or UATX is doing. The premise, of course, is simple, and it goes like this. While the brand name schools have the money, they no longer have the mission. They have fundamentally abandoned the point of the university, which is the pursuit of truth. The good people at UATX, where I'm proud to be on the board, are not waiting for the broken status quo to change. They're not sitting around criticizing or whining. They are doing. 

Just a few weeks ago, UTAX opened its doors to its first students at its inaugural summer school. I was blown away by the students that I met there, and I was honored to lecture alongside teachers like Neil Ferguson, Kathleen Stock, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Rob Henderson and Thomas Chatterton Williams. And today I wanted to share with all of you the talk that I gave at the old parkland in Dallas to that first class of students. It's about the broken moment that we're in as a culture and a country, but more it's about what I think is required of us to meet this moment.

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