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People keep telling us they wish they could audit a UATX class.
We heard you. Every lecture of the Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome with UATX Professor Isabella Reinhardt is now free, filmed live in the classroom.
Pull up a chair, and watch the full series: connect.uaustin.org/rome-onl…
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Why has the Trojan War inspired storytellers from Homer to Nolan?
This fall, UATX students considered the war's timeless themes of heroism, morality, and loss — and how humans shape their fate in the face of the divine.
Learn more about the legacy of Troy for free: connect.uaustin.org/rome-onl…
Class readings on the Trojan War:
-The Iliad, Homer
-Ajax, Sophocles
-Philoctetes, Sophocles
-Hecuba, Euripides
-Andromache, Euripides
-Trojan Women, Euripides
-Agamemnon, Aeschylus
-“The Language of Achilles,” Adam Parry
-“The Shield of Achilles within the Iliad,” Oliver Taplin
-“Learning About Combat Stress from Homer’s Iliad,” Jonathan Shay
-“The Epic Cycle and the Uniqueness of Homer,” Jasper Griffin
-“The Tragic Homer,” “Presentation of Character in Aeschylus,” P.E. Easterling
-“The Iliad and the Odyssey in Sophocles’ Philoctetes: Generic Complexity and Ethical Ambiguity,” Seth L. Schein
-“Total Disaster: Euripides’ the Trojan Women,” Adrian Poole
Fr. Andrew Dalton on how faith and reason work together to arrive at truth. @othoniainc
Is the Shroud of Turin a true image of Jesus Christ?
UATX's student-led Catholic Club brought Father Dalton to campus to lay out the evidence. @OthoniaInc
00:00 — Preview
00:32 — Who is the man of the shroud?
01:04 — Two lenses: the scientist and the pilgrim
02:54 — The shroud in Turin today
04:41 — The burial cloths in John 20
07:37 — "He saw and believed"
09:45 — Faith and reason
10:52 — The birth of shroud science
11:26 — Secondo Pia's 1898 photograph
13:35 — Yves Delage and the double standard
15:07 — Why the shroud is unique
16:26 — Bloodstains vs. body image
17:40 — The VP8 Image Analyzer and 3D information
20:09 — The Shroud of Turin Research Project
22:04 — Painting, scorch, rubbing, or photograph?
23:10 — An image 0.2 microns deep
25:03 — The unclaimed million-dollar prize
25:42 — Real bloodstains
26:27 — How the body was wrapped
28:21 — Crowned and crucified
29:18 — Buried as a king
31:41 — The Pray Codex
34:56 — The silent witness
36:31 — Sweating blood in Gethsemane
37:29 — The kiss of Judas
39:11 — Jesus before Caiaphas
42:15 — The scourging
45:15 — The crown of thorns
47:22 — Carrying the cross
49:13 — Nailed to the cross
53:14 — Speaking from the cross
53:49 — The pierced side
54:59 — Evidence of the resurrection
57:22 — Doubting Thomas
Recorded: October 16, 2026 at UATX.
Is the Shroud of Turin a true image of Jesus Christ?
UATX's student-led Catholic Club brought Father Dalton to campus to lay out the evidence. @OthoniaInc
00:00 — Preview
00:32 — Who is the man of the shroud?
01:04 — Two lenses: the scientist and the pilgrim
02:54 — The shroud in Turin today
04:41 — The burial cloths in John 20
07:37 — "He saw and believed"
09:45 — Faith and reason
10:52 — The birth of shroud science
11:26 — Secondo Pia's 1898 photograph
13:35 — Yves Delage and the double standard
15:07 — Why the shroud is unique
16:26 — Bloodstains vs. body image
17:40 — The VP8 Image Analyzer and 3D information
20:09 — The Shroud of Turin Research Project
22:04 — Painting, scorch, rubbing, or photograph?
23:10 — An image 0.2 microns deep
25:03 — The unclaimed million-dollar prize
25:42 — Real bloodstains
26:27 — How the body was wrapped
28:21 — Crowned and crucified
29:18 — Buried as a king
31:41 — The Pray Codex
34:56 — The silent witness
36:31 — Sweating blood in Gethsemane
37:29 — The kiss of Judas
39:11 — Jesus before Caiaphas
42:15 — The scourging
45:15 — The crown of thorns
47:22 — Carrying the cross
49:13 — Nailed to the cross
53:14 — Speaking from the cross
53:49 — The pierced side
54:59 — Evidence of the resurrection
57:22 — Doubting Thomas
Recorded: October 16, 2026 at UATX.
University of Austin (UATX) retweeted
If you're in the Austin area, join us today at @uaustinorg for the launch of @AXELKAISER's book, "Nazi-Communism."
The book has received praise from @nfergus, @tylercowen, @DeirdreMcClosk, @peterthiel, @JMilei, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado.
UATX professor Carson Bay brought his philosophy students to an amphitheater in Austin's Lebermann Plaza to discuss the thought of Sextus Empiricus, just as ancient students would have done.
UATX Provost David Ruth joined Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Ari Berman and WVU’s Gordon Gee at ASMEA’s annual conference to discuss rebuilding trust in higher education.
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UATX professor Spencer Klavan (@SpencerKlavan) provides a 2,400-year-old explanation for the Republican midterm disaster. @thefp
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University of Austin (UATX) retweeted
This thing is gorgeous, I can’t wait to get a turn on it. Very grateful to the Kovners for their incredibly generous donation!
Thanks to the generosity of Bruce and Suzie Kovner, UATX now has its own Steinway Model D.
On Thursday, Anton Nel and the Miró Quartet played it for the first time in Dvořák's Piano Quintet at our inaugural Chamber Music Concert.
A legendary instrument, timeless music, played by masters of their art. For our students, a vivid lesson in the pursuit of excellence, and an invitation to pursue it in their own work.
We're deeply grateful for a gift that will fill our halls with music for years to come.
Thanks to the generosity of Bruce and Suzie Kovner, UATX now has its own Steinway Model D.
On Thursday, Anton Nel and the Miró Quartet played it for the first time in Dvořák's Piano Quintet at our inaugural Chamber Music Concert.
A legendary instrument, timeless music, played by masters of their art. For our students, a vivid lesson in the pursuit of excellence, and an invitation to pursue it in their own work.
We're deeply grateful for a gift that will fill our halls with music for years to come.
What is the Left, and what are the beliefs that shape it?
This fall, UATX students got a preview of "The Left's War on Reality," Michael Shellenberger's forthcoming book with Alex Gutentag. The class also read Ibram X. Kendi, Judith Butler, and Paulo Freire. @shellenberger @galexybrane
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Michael Shellenberger's class readings:
-The Left’s War on Reality, Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag
-Who’s Afraid of Gender?, Judith Butler
-Drug Use for Grown-Ups, Carl Hart
-In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts, Gabor Maté
-The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
-Intercourse, Andrea Dworkin
-How to Be an Anti-Racist, Ibram X. Kendi
-Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire
-“Freedom Over Death,” Michael Cholbi
-“Eleven Arguments for Open Borders,” John Washington
-“Liberals Don’t Have to Lose On Immigration,” Jerusalem Demas
-“Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,” Nikole Hannah-Jones
-“The Uninhabitable Earth,” David Wallace-Wells
-“Climate Change’s Worst Case Scenario Now Looks Unrealistic,” David Wallace-Wells
-“Let’s Declare a Pandemic Emergency,” Emily Oster
-“Why the COVID Reckoning Is So One-Sided,” Jonathan Chait
-“What Worked Against Covid: Masks, Closures and Vaccines,” Tom Frieden
-“The Case for Wearing Masks Forever,” Emma Green
-“Public’s Repudiation Of Woke Radicalism Drives Democrats’ Socialist Turn,” Michael Shellenberger
-“The Socialist Movement Led Mamdani To Victory,” Corey Robin
-“Mamdani is Trumpifying the Democrats,” Geoff Shullenberger
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University of Austin (UATX) retweeted
Did a little baking this morning while listening to “The Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome” course offered for free by @uaustinorg. We truly live in an exceptional time and place. (Except for the inadequate number of Hershey kisses in a bag.)
Icon carver Jonathan Pageau on why educated elites are turning to Christianity. @PageauJonathan @austin_union
Can you be a saint in the age of AI?
Jonathan Pageau (@PageauJonathan), liturgical artist and storyteller, highlights the danger of making an idol out of artificial super-intelligence. This event was hosted by the Austin Union (@austin_union), a student debate organization founded at UATX.
00:00 — Preview
00:49 — UATX student Yale Abernathy introduces the Austin Union
03:07 — Introducing Jonathan Pageau
05:31 — The original meaning of "transhuman"
09:02 — Plato and the problem of the prosthetic
13:14 — Will AI make us dumber?
14:14 — Worshipping the works of our hands
17:59 — Bryan Johnson and the horizontal life
19:36 — AI is eating you
21:30 — Student cross-examination begins
24:15 — First steps toward the vertical life
27:43 — Talking to tech moguls
29:26 — Recovering our stories
32:21 — The Orthodox revival in America
35:10 — The real story of Prometheus
42:10 — Theosis vs. transhumanism
44:33 — Can personal change beat AI's incentives?
48:43 — Kierkegaard and the coming darkness
54:05 — When does a tool become an idol?
56:45 — AI as divination
01:04:14 — Defining human nature
01:08:34 — Audience Q&A begins
01:09:05 — Who is the true God?
01:10:28 — The morality of comedy
01:12:27 — Biological or robotic transhumanism?
01:13:33 — Why must transformation be inward?
01:15:56 — Growing vertically and horizontally
01:17:58 — How Pageau uses AI
01:22:01 — AI in early childhood education
01:23:51 — Must we understand how AI works?
01:27:39 — Can AI become an idol?
01:28:48 — AI governance and responsibility
Recorded: October 6, 2026, at UATX.
Cicero called Mark Antony a drunk and a forger. How much of a politician’s attack on a rival should you believe?
Watch UATX’s 19-part series, Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome, for free: connect.uaustin.org/rome-onl…
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Highlights from last Saturday. Claremont Review of Books editor Charles Kesler, Reason’s Matt Welch (@MattWelch), and Duke Law professor Jedediah Purdy joined us to discuss what American patriotism means at 250.




















