Reach For Your Culture: UATX Launch
City Journal | Jacob Howland
UATX’s Director of Intellectual Foundations details the successful launch of UATX’s Forbidden Courses summer program. Bringing together students from leading colleges and universities, the program lived up to its name. “The disarming power of culture was palpable. Students who had learned to hold their tongues in college classrooms poured forth their souls once the cork of wariness was unstopped.”
The article brings readers into the courses led by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Kathleen Stock, Niall Ferguson and workshops led by Nadine Strossen, Bari Weiss, Peter Boghossian, David Mamet, Edward Luttwak, Arthur Brooks, and others
“Discussions in the forbidden courses ultimately centered on the kinds of fundamental questions for which Socrates was known, ones that take the form “What is x?” What is a woman? What is race?… What is justice? What is compassion? The widespread insistence that we have arrived at incontestable answers, or that ordinary citizens are unqualified to discuss such matters, conceals the fact that we have forgotten how to ask the most basic questions. This goes a long way toward explaining the collapse of essential American institutions.”
Related:
College of the Future: The University of Austin (UATX) is happening—and it will help rescue American higher education (City Journal, 3/4/23)
