The University of Austin is The Grift that Keeps on Grifting

The proposed anti-woke university is another example of how intellectually bankrupt the “free inquiry” advocates have become.

Dr. Thomas J. West III

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5 min readNov 10, 2021

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A few days ago, I saw some commentary flitting across my Twitter timeline about some university in Austin that was going to be institutionalizing an…

Dr. Thomas J. West III

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