Pano Kanelos is the president of the University of Austin, which will admit its first class of 100 students this fall. The college was founded in 2021 as an antidote to the left-wing monoculture in academia and is committed to free speech and the pursuit of truth. ReasonNick Gillespie spoke with Kanelos, a Shakespeare scholar and first-generation college student who grew up in a Greek restaurant in Chicago, about how UC Austin will be different from virtually every other college around, why the humanities have virtually disappeared from higher education and how a chance meeting with Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow changed his life. He also does a quick, impromptu reading of the poem “Ovid in the Third Reich” by Geoffrey Hill, one of his major intellectual influences.
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