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In the mood for mystery? UATX’s student-lead theater company presents J. B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, a drama that weaves intrigue and class commentary to unravel the moral confidence of a wealthy family. Public performance on Friday, October 30th at 7:30 PM.
Reserve your seat now and get ready for a twist.
RSVP Here: uaustin.swoogo.com/An-Inspec…
Entrepreneur @benmlevy (@myfirstmilpod, multiple multimillion-dollar exits) showed UATX students how to identify, demand, and seize opportunities when building a business. @AaronWebman
Special Advisor to the President @LorenRotner on how UATX keeps AI from shortcutting learning in the classroom.
Did the Gracchi have to die for the Republic to survive? UATX Professor Isabella Reinhardt and UT Professor Max Lykins debated the fate of Rome’s most famous reformers, and what it says about populism today. Hosted by the Austin Union (@austin_union).
Leo Strauss thought we needed to return to the classics to understand why modernity contains the seeds of its own destruction.
Applications are due soon for UATX's honors symposium on Strauss. Free to undergraduates and recent grads. January 8-10.
uaustin.org/strauss-symposiu…
Will AI take your job? Former Senator Phil Gramm on what history says.
00:00 — Preview
00:30 — Why a broad education matters in the age of AI
02:22 — The most important graph in the world
05:14 — What the Industrial Revolution really did for living standards
07:29 — Dickens, Scrooge, and the dark picture of Victorian literature
12:09 — Two pictures of the same history
13:23 — What the Industrial Revolution teaches us about AI
15:33 — Five million job changes every month in the US
18:20 — Will AI end the world?
19:49 — Nobody wins the AI race
21:30 — Student Q&A begins
21:30 — Q&A: Is AI a tool or an agent?
23:20 — Q&A: Can Gen Z afford a good life?
26:59 — Q&A: Should production outpace our wants?
28:40 — Q&A: Is AI corrosive to self-government?
31:24 — Q&A: What to make of the AI doomers
33:39 — Q&A: What we lost in the Industrial Revolution
35:12 — Q&A: How should we treat today's Luddites?
39:01 — Q&A: Why are AI companies scaring people?
40:07 — Q&A: Will AI bring a new wave of bureaucracy?
41:20 — Q&A: Has innovation stalled?
43:46 — Q&A: Predicting the next innovation
45:10 — Q&A: The hidden benefits of data centers
46:41 — Q&A: The AI race and the space race
48:26 — Q&A: Can Social Security be saved?
52:40 — Q&A: Falling fertility and the future of growth
Recorded: October 13, 2026 at UATX.
France is in its worst unrest in years. Is it just the beginning?
UATX visiting faculty @coldxman talks with @KonstantinKisin about France, immigration, and Ukraine, and what holds a nation together.
It's also a question Coleman takes up this winter, when he returns to UATX to teach The Legacy of Slavery.
youtube.com/watch?v=IkUTgsR5…
UATX's American Civilization Director Jacob Wolf on Thomas Cole's The Course of Empire — five paintings tracing a civilization from wilderness to ruin.
"Cole warns us, in effect, that civilization is not the same as progress. Human beings may build cities, engage in commerce, and cultivate the arts and sciences and yet lose the virtues and moderation that make civilization good."
uatx.substack.com/p/can-amer…
Students in UATX’s Applied Engineering class, taught by The Boring Company, are building and programming rovers in our on-campus Innovation Lab. They’ll test them in an obstacle course of their own making at our Applied Engineering Lab in Bastrop. @boringcompany
University of Austin (UATX) retweeted
“We’re going to graduate students who aren’t faking it.”
I sat down with @LorenRotner of @uaustinorg to talk about what’s broken in legacy institutions and how UATX is building safeguards in the AI age.
UATX sophomore Raymond Leschber studied political theology in Budapest, Transylvania, and Vienna as a freshman, then spent the summer in Mexico doing field reporting with Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) and Ioan Grillo (@ioangrillo).
A few weeks into the school year, UATX freshman Joshua Strauss pitched his own startup to investors at @CapitalFactory.
The Shroud of Turin is very likely a true image of Jesus Christ, argues Fr. Andrew Dalton @othoniainc. Using forensic science to support the Gospel accounts, Fr. Dalton explained to UATX students how the Shroud bears clear signs of Christ's death and resurrection, even down to marks left by the instruments of the Passion.
Fr. Andrew Dalton, a theology professor at the Regina Apostolorum in Rome, was invited by the campus Catholic association to visit UATX on October 16th.
“The traditions and the rituals and the laws and the practices that have sustained us for 3,000 years are kind of now optional in the United States.” Commentator Shabbos Kestenbaum (@ShabbosK) on how America’s religious freedom became a double-edged sword for Jewish tradition. In conversation with a UATX student from the Austin Union (@austin_union).
Should a free society tolerate the intolerant? Can American Jews stay Jewish in a country that never forces them to choose? Why hasn't Holocaust education reduced antisemitism? Commentator Shabbos Kestenbaum (@ShabbosK) joins UATX student William Posey of the Austin Union (@austin_union) at UATX for a wide-ranging conversation.
Special thanks to the Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission for sponsoring. @THGAAC
0:00 — Introduction
01:24 — "I don't defend Israel, I celebrate it"
04:59 — Immutable characteristics and the "woke right"
08:22 — Combating bad ideas with better ideas
09:53 — The Harvard lawsuit and the paradox of tolerance
13:02 — Should antisemitic speech have limits?
15:42 — Education vs. prosecution
18:00 — The "Holocaust industrial complex"
20:02 — Antisemitism and Jewish identity
21:21 — America as a double-edged sword for Jews
22:44 — "American values are Jewish values" and the RNC speech
26:07 — Orthodoxy and Kiddush Hashem
27:37 — Reform Judaism and Tikkun Olam
31:53 — Jewish voters and religion in politics
35:26 — Christian nationalism
36:45 — Islam and Western civilization
Recorded: Oct. 5, 2026 at UATX.
How do you spot an idea worth building?
Ben Levy (@BenMLevy) — showrunner of My First Million, co-founder of Workstreet — in conversation with @AaronWebman at UATX.
Thursday, October 22, at 5:30 PM. Join us!
