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UATX 2025 Highlights
Winter 2025 visiting lecturers & guests: Bari Weiss, Mark Blitz, Gad Saad, Brian Kilmeade, Lorraine Pangle, Alex Epstein, Jordan Young (DJ Swivel), Michael Shellenberger, Loren Sammons, John Chisholm, Carl Hansen, Devin Stauffer, Alex Karp, Edward Luttwak, Jack Balkin, Akhil Amar, Curtis Yarvin, Ronna Burger, Ilya Shapiro, and Rear Admiral Richard Brophy.
Journalist Michael Shellenberger teaches freshmen a course on Pathocracy, while podcaster Coleman Hughes teaches on the Legacy of Slavery.
February 14: UATX releases its Statement on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. It’s the American Declaration of Independence.
Spring 2025 visiting lecturers & guests: Peter Thiel, Glenn Loury, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Jessica Wolfe, Jordan B. Peterson, Bill Ackman, Jeff Yass, Rabbi Mitch Rocklin, Rod Dreher, Coleman Hughes, Larry Summers, Patrick Deneen, Dorian Abbot, Alex Petkas, Peter Boghossian, Niall Ferguson, Clara Mattei, Sam Corcos, Noland Arbaugh, Jon Levenson, Bridget Phetasy, Joe Lonsdale, Gov. Greg Abbott, Tevi Troy, Graham Frey, Dave Rubin, Michael Doran, Brendan McCord, Senator Ted Budd, Gabriel Reynolds, Phillip Magness, Nathan Eubank, John Cochrane, Senator John Cornyn, Joe Leimandt, Jason Calacanis, Simon Haines, Nas Daily, Mike Maples Jr.
March 31: UATX launches the most meritocratic college admissions in America. Applications take less than 7 minutes. Test scores only. Palantir is so inspired by UATX’s admissions policy that it copies the policy for its own fellowship.
April 22: Jordan B. Peterson swings by campus to hang out with students.
May 2: Dr. Carlos Carvalho leaves his 15-year professorship at the University of Texas to become president of UATX.
May 2: UATX freshmen play poker with Jeff Yass.
June 13: UATX ranks its top students and rewards them with stacks of books.
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Summer 2025: Students leave for their summer internships. Eitan Zarin serves as an investment intern at 8VC in San Francisco. Sam Indyk interns at the White House Office of Science and Technology policy. Faith Brown participates in the Hudson Institute’s Political Studies Fellowship. Merrick Meardon, Eli Crowder, and John Newland herd goats in Italy’s Apennine mountains.
UATX assigns incoming freshman summer reading: The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom, Regime Change by Patrick Deneen, The Assault on Excellence by Anthony Kronman, and The Iliad by Homer.
June 11: UATX President Carlos Carvalho explains why he left UT-Austin to build the alternative America needs: “Our universities have become infected by a harmful lie — that all ideas are equally valid, that truth is merely a social construct, that one culture’s wisdom is as good as another’s superstition. Merit is out of fashion… Political conformity and self-censorship are the norm…During COVID, we watched our best institutions abandon scientific reasoning in favor of political theater. After October 7th, we saw them struggle to condemn obvious evil… UATX is a return to American principles — and a place to prepare citizens for democratic life.”
June 27-29: UATX welcomes hundreds of high schoolers and parents to campus for small seminars taught by Rob Henderson and Joshua Katz (among others), a lecture on Texas history with Donald Frazier, and dinner with Michael Shellenberger.
July 17: President Carvalho responds to the Manhattan Statement on Higher Education: “Our purpose is clear: to educate citizens and leaders capable of assuring the success of constitutional liberty and national prosperity.”
August 21-27: Student leaders spend a week backpacking and whitewater rafting in the Colorado mountains with UATX Dean of STEM and Captain David Ruth, U.S. Navy (Ret.).
August 28: UATX earns Candidate for Accreditation status in record time. This means we’re officially on track to full accreditation.
Late August: UATX doubles its campus footprint, including a beautiful new lecture hall, expanded study spaces, and additional classrooms.
August 31: A new freshman cohort arrives (median SAT: 1450). President Carlos Carvalho welcomes the Class of ’29 with a convocation address that goes viral globally. It’s hailed as “absolutely magnificent” and “the best speech by any university president.R