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The New Founders America Needs
The New Founders America Needs
Miners in the Sierras, 1851-1852. Artists: Charles Christian Nahl and August Wenderoth. (Heritage Art via Getty Images)
What I told the first students at The University of Austin.
By Bari Weiss
07.10.22 — Culture and Ideas
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The New Founders America Needs

There are nearly 4,000 universities in the United States. Many of them have massive endowments and histories that stretch back to well before the country’s founding. So you’d be forgiven for thinking it a bit ridiculous to try to compete with those Goliaths. 

And yet that is exactly what the new University of Austin, or UATX, is doing.

The premise of UATX…

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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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