Bari Weiss: I hear congratulations on your Palestine Studies department are in order? | Moustafa Bayoumi

I mean, sure, you haven't announced it yet. But your new free speech' university will obviously welcome cancelled pro-Palestine scholars ... right?

To Bari Weiss and the founders of the new University of Austin,

I write to you today to offer my heartfelt congratulations on inaugurating a courageous new institution of higher learning, the University of Austin in Texas (UATX). As someone who has spent his career in the gilded halls of the academe (or, in my case, the ugly two-tone hallways of peeling paint found in my public institution), I have witnessed exactly the kind of destructive groupthink that your new president, Pano Kanelos, bravely writes about in his essay announcing this new and much-needed venture.