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Honestly: The New Founders America Needs
Honestly: The New Founders America Needs
Students exit the Harvard Business School (Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty Images)
By Bari Weiss
07.07.22 — Education
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Honestly: The New Founders America Needs

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 premis…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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