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(63,958 posts) Thu Mar 20, 2025, 12:08 PM Mar 20

How Bari Weiss's University of Austin Sidles Up to Orban's Strongman Rule

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NEW: Bari Weiss’s University of Austin, touted as a haven for free academic inquiry, has a dozen scholars and officials with ties to Hungary’s speech-suppressing regime.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/how-a-free-speech-university-sidles-up-to-orbans-strongman-rule/

How a Free-Speech University Sidles Up to Orbán’s Strongman Rule
Bari Weiss's University of Austin, touted as a haven for free academic inquiry, has a dozen scholars and officials with ties to Hungary's speech-suppressing regime
www.thenation.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:28 AM

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How Bari Weiss's University of Austin Sidles Up to Orban's Strongman Rule (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Mar 20 OP

Crazy. And in downtown Austin, right in the middle of the old hippy section of downtown until the ... marble falls Mar 20 #1

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1. Crazy. And in downtown Austin, right in the middle of the old hippy section of downtown until the ...

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Thu Mar 20, 2025, 12:43 PM

Mar 20

... the dot.com-ers showed up. Beautiful bldg, it's got a very nice deco-ish 30s street level facade.

I'm considering going there to finish up my mass communications BA from another 'A' University - Akron U (the main campus of which has around 17,000 students, is a state school and is accredited). We used to call it Hill Top High or Polymer High.

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