About a week ago, former Wall Street Journal book editor Bari Weiss unveiled a new college: the University of Austin. The pitch for this new university was that it would promote freedom of expression and academic exploration, which have long been hallmarks of American liberal education but which have been, in the eyes of Austin supporters, under attack by “cancel culture“. The New Republic called … Continue reading “I don’t understand why the academics are leaving me,” cries University of Academics Are Evil