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We are a community of scholars exploring the ideas and institutions that create flourishing societies.
The Civitas Institute is part of the School of Civic Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin.
Independent thought, civil discourse, reasoned deliberation and intellectual curiosity are central to our ethos.
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The Broken Windows in American Higher Education
The Current Battleline of the DEI Wars
The Academic “Resistance” Decries Government Interference
The Contents of Originalism
Harvard's Civil Rights Violations Run Deep
Congress Can Shore Up Anti-Terror Laws
American Education's Need for a New Founding
Combatting Antisemitism on Campus
The Arrival of Legal Traditionalism
Chemerinsky's Constitutional Wishlist