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Is THIS the most dangerous university in America?



There’s no doubt that higher education has been infiltrated by ideology — more specifically, by leftist ideology. However, Patrick Gray believes that higher education can be saved — and the University of Austin is a prime example.

The University of Austin is a new school that has proclaimed a dedication to freedom of thought and discourse. The school was co-founded by ex-New York Times journalist Bari Weiss.

Gray, who will be a professor at the school, tells James Poulos of "Zero Hour" just why he has faith in it.

“We’ve been overwhelmed by student response. We’ve brought in students from super high-end institutions — you know, Oxford, the Sorbonne, Harvard, you know, Yale — coming in wanting to take classes with us,” he tells Poulos.

The school will offer classes called “Forbidden Courses,” which will focus on classes that your average institution wouldn’t offer.

Gray offers an example of one of the courses, which is on science and religion. He explains that the course delves into whether the two can be reconciled, what they have in common, and how they’ve influenced each other over time.

Other courses include questions about reactionaries, the biology of gender, and conservatism.

Poulos is curious how academics like Gray plan to “protect” students “without just kind of getting sucked into 'safe space' culture all over again.”

“When we look at kind of the very rapid rise of a quasi-totalitarian identity politics throughout universities, that is a response to a vacuum, a power vacuum, and a lack of direction,” Gray explains. “Rather than saying we’re going to guarantee that anyone is free to do absolutely anything, total freedom of expression, we are going to have a clearly defined mission.”

Gray says the school plans to make sure that mission is not political.

“Our mission is to arrive at the truth.”


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Tempest in a Teacup

The journalist and critic Elizabeth Winkler, then, enters into a tempest of her own with Shakespeare Was a Woman, which seeks to further an argument that she first proposed in the Atlantic in 2019. That feature suggested—albeit without much in the way of concrete evidence—that "Shakespeare" might have been a nom de plume for the English female poet Emilia Bassano, who was not, in her reading, the so-called Dark Lady to whom he addressed many of his sonnets. In an entertaining early set-piece, Winkler details the outrage her piece caused; she was accused of "conspiracism," denigrated as neurotic, even deranged, and her refusal to accept the "Stratfordian" belief that William Shakespeare, son of a Stratford glover, was the author of the 38 plays and hundreds of poems that bear his name saw her compared to Holocaust deniers.

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Jordan Peterson says Bible is like no other book, tells Joe Rogan it's the 'precondition for the manifestation of truth' and 'way more true than just true'



Jordan Peterson offered some eye-opening words about the Bible during his marathon interview on Tuesday's episode of the "The Joe Rogan Experience," telling the host that the Good Book not only is like no other book, but also far beyond simply true.

What are the details?

Peterson — a world-renowned author and speaker who recently resigned as a tenured University of Toronto professor while calling academia a "stunningly corrupt enterprise" — told Rogan that the Bible is at the very core of our cultural "bedrock of agreement."

Noting that he had just "walked through" the "very cool" Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., Peterson explained that in terms of "fundamental texts" in Western civilization — those upon which just about all others depend — writings by the likes of William Shakespeare and John Milton are in that category. But the Bible, he said, is the very foundation of them all.

But Peterson said the Bible goes way beyond that.

"It isn't that the Bible is true," he said. "It's that the Bible is the precondition for the manifestation of truth — which makes it way more true than just 'true.' It's a whole different kind of true. And I think that this is not only literally the case — factually — I think it can't be any other way. It's the only way we can solve the problem of perception."

Here's the clip:

Jordan Peterson's Realization About the Bibleyoutu.be

Anything else?

Last year Peterson got quite emotional during a podcast interview discussing Jesus, God, and the notions of faith and spiritual beliefs.

"What you have in the figure of Christ is an actual person who actually lived, plus a myth, and, in some sense, Christ is the union of those two things," he said. "The problem is I probably believe that, but I’m amazed at my own belief, and I don’t understand it.”

Peterson added that "it’s too terrifying a reality to fully believe. I don’t even know what would happen to you if you fully believed it.”

He also said that in the past when he was asked if he believed in God, "I’ve answered in various ways, ‘No, but I’m afraid he probably exists'" — after which Peterson added, “There’s no limit to what would happen if you acted like God existed."

And during a 2019 Liberty University panel discussion featuring Peterson, then-campus pastor David Nasser prayed with a man who had rushed the stage and asked for help. Afterward Nasser asked Peterson how he could pray for him, too — and Peterson again got emotional, replying that he wanted to avoid paying undue prices for mistakes he would make in his life. But in his prayer Nasser also asked God that Peterson would one day find him and make his kingdom his home.