Carvalho: UATX curriculum is explicitly designed to uphold Western civilization
Carlos Carvalho · This Idea is Destroying American Universities · Joe Lonsdale · Oct 9, 2025 · at 7:39
University of Austin (UATX) President Carlos Carvalho explains the institutional philosophy and curriculum design principles of UATX.
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“No, no, but an university has a duty, I believe, in especially where we sit here in America, to be an institution that is pro-decivilization, that is trying to uphold the civilization and move the civilization forward. So that's a very opinionated position. That's a position that starts with that set of values that permeate the way we develop our curriculum. We don't start from scratch and say, oh, we don't have a curriculum. No, we do have a curriculum. And that curriculum comes from the premise that we believe and want to uphold our civilization. We want to understand how we got to be this great and perpetuate that moving forward. So therefore we have, we're not neutral about that. We absolutely not neutral about that.”
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