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anniduh.bsky.social
Welp. This made me weepy. I had a small giggle at the Greek dog names. Kanelos (cinnamon or red) and Loukanikos (sausage). All these dogs were the best dogs and they made me feel proud.
June 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
nateo.bsky.social
Goddamn, the author-fool got his Fell For It award
Kanelos said that universities had failed both students and the nation. Democracy was weakening because schools had become illiberal and incapable of producing citizens interested in or competent to participate in democratic governance. “We are done waiting for the legacy universities to right themselves,” he concluded in soaring rhetoric. “And so we are building anew.” “I want to work there,” I told my wife. Kanelos’ concerns resonated deeply with me, both intellectually and personally. I’m a lifelong civil libertarian and have watched with dismay as both the left and right have eroded academic freedom and open inquiry on college campuses.
January 16, 2026 at 6:09 PM
jennycohn.bsky.social
11/ In addition, UATX’s provost, an ally of Kanelos, was reportedly fired.
January 23, 2026 at 6:37 PM
imcmillan.bsky.social
Enjoying this graphic story by Jessie Kanelos Weiner in the latest edition of the Paris magazine Souvenir
June 26, 2026 at 11:23 AM
katjathieme.bsky.social
Pano Kanelos, is my guess.

Why do I know these things. A curse, surely.

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Pano Kanelos - Wikipedia
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January 17, 2026 at 6:45 AM
richterscale.bsky.social
i'm sorry excuse me what
screenshot of Wikipedia article for Andes Mints. the salient quotation, highlighted, is: "In 1921, Andrew Kanelos opened a small candy store in Chicago, Illinois. While he initially called his store "Andy's Candies" in reference to himself, Kanelos realised that his predominantly male customers did not like giving boxes of candy with another man's name to their wives and girlfriends. As such, he changed the spelling of the business to "Andes Candies.""
October 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
watercoloursam.bsky.social
IN ALL TRANSPARENCY
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IN ALL TRANSPARENCY
A guest post by Jessie Kanelos Weiner
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July 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
katjathieme.bsky.social
You can also see a bust of Pano Kanelos in the glass reflecting.
January 17, 2026 at 6:46 AM
dixitinsipiens.bsky.social
Love seeing one of the oldest and holiest Eastern Orthodox places be commodified for a new right-wing billionaire funding channel, just like the holy hesychastic elders would've intended
Pano KanelosPano Kanelos Founding Partner, The Athos GroupFounding Partner, The Athos Group 2d • 2 days ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn Follow MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Pano Kanelos and Chad Thevenot are thrilled to announce the launch of The Athos Group—a firm devoted to helping founders, funders, and leaders build and renew the institutions that sustain a free ...more
November 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
lite4one.bsky.social
The #Watercolor Control Problem with Jessie Kanelos Weiner - #art
The Watercolour Control Problem with Jessie Kanelos Weiner
A free replay of Jessie Kanelos Weiner's live video about painting, art and colour.
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October 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
jennycohn.bsky.social
10/ A lot of the article focuses on Pano Kanelos, an Avishai ally who was moved from the position of UATX president to the position of UATX chancellor to make way for a new constitutional order with a “constitutional monarch” and a “prime minister.”
January 23, 2026 at 6:35 PM
bradvivian.bsky.social
Gov. Abott’s administration endorses state censorship of academic freedom, political interference with public education (both K-12 and higher ed), praises the censorious Orban regime, and supports the preemptive mass arrest of college students for exercising 1A rights.
University of Austin & @uaustinorg Follow President Kanelos, faculty & the founding class process to the Texas State Capitol to meet with @GregAbbott_T. 2:22 PM • 9/2/24 • 6.5K Views
September 2, 2024 at 10:12 PM
medievaliste.bsky.social
I'm sorry, but everyone in this story is unbelievably gullible, starting and ending with the author.
Kanelos said that universities had failed both students and the nation. Democracy was weakening because schools had become illiberal and incapable of producing citizens interested in or competent to participate in democratic governance. “We are done waiting for the legacy universities to right themselves,” he concluded in soaring rhetoric. “And so we are building anew.” “I want to work there,” I told my wife. Kanelos’ concerns resonated deeply with me, both intellectually and personally. I’m a lifelong civil libertarian and have watched with dismay as both the left and right have eroded academic freedom and open inquiry on college campuses. I’ve chronicled efforts to combat this trend for POLITICO Magazine. And, several years ago, I experienced a backlash firsthand, when a student excoriated me for defending the free speech rights of a conservative student at a campus forum on freedom of speech. With its lineup of heavy hitters, I thought UATX might be able to reverse the trend. The list leaned right, to be sure. Loury, who is Black, zealously opposes affirmative action. Mamet had called Trump “the best president since Abraham Lincoln.” Hock served as chairwoman of an organization called Texas GOP 2020 Victory. Several of the academics had experienced backlash for taking conservative positions. These included Dorian Abbot, a geophysicist who’d had a planned lecture at MIT on extraterrestrial life canceled over his views on DEI; Peter Boghossian, who’d resigned from Portland State University in part because of the institution’s response to his sending hoax articles to academic journals; and University of Sussex professor Kathleen Stock, who’d faced protests over her allegedly transphobic views, which she disputed. But Summers had served in Bill Clinton’s Cabinet and as Barack Obama’s chief economic advisor. Others were unconventional, independent thinkers, and several, including Haidt and Strossen, had made advocating for free inquiry and open dialogue a major part of their life’s work. It was possible to believe that the group had just enough viewpoint diversity, and a depth of commitment to civil libertarian principles, that it might transcend the virtue signaling, intellectual hegemony and inclination to cancel that had stalled many American colleges and universities.
January 16, 2026 at 7:34 PM
tomlevenson.bsky.social
So here is UAustin's braintrust: Weiss, a master of the wingnut welfare gravy train like few others; Kanelos, who has great-booked his brain into epistemic closure; Lonsdale, a deeply illiberal Thiel surveillance creep, & former intellectual Ferguson, famous for attempting to dox/SWAT a student.
September 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
holasocxavi.bsky.social
Pues ahora es cuando os digo que la pescadería se llama "KANELOS".
September 4, 2026 at 3:45 PM
therexwolff.bsky.social
The author self-identifying as a libertarian seeds the whole piece with deeply funny dramatic irony.

“The chancellor spoke at length at RETVRN to Classical Greek ideals, huge W for academic pluralism!”
"History is not a story unfolding; it is an epic being written. And its authors are those bold enough to exercise their agency in the pursuit of higher things," he said. According to Kanelos, UATX was returning to the Platonic ideal - to the "olive grove on the fringes of Athens called the Akademia," where students came together to ask "fundamental human questions." There were other schools in Greece, but Kanelos said Plato's stood above them all. "What distinguished Plato's Academy," he told the students, "was doctrinal pluralism and a variety of intellectual approaches. There were no easy answers. Every discussion branched outward with ever-greater complexity." The pluralists had won. At least for the moment.
January 17, 2026 at 2:20 PM
borisogon.bsky.social
"The founders included Kanelos, who’d resigned the presidency of St. John’s College in Annapolis to run the new university, Weiss, Ferguson, Lonsdale and Heather Heying, an evolutionary biologist."

Guess who Heying is married to.

www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
Bret Weinstein, Would-Be Galileo
Galileo has many heirs. I don’t mean biological descendants; rather, some intellectuals see Galileo’s face in the mirror staring back at them. Freed from the shackles of academia (or simply kicked out...
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January 16, 2026 at 5:59 PM
jarnott.bsky.social
This is incredible. He faced *criticism* at a *free speech forum*? OH NO!

Libertarians are the biggest fucking babies known to man.
An excerpt from the article: "Kanelos’ concerns resonated deeply with me, both intellectually and personally. I’m a lifelong civil libertarian and have watched with dismay as both the left and right have eroded academic freedom and open inquiry on college campuses. I’ve chronicled efforts to combat this trend for POLITICO Magazine. And, several years ago, I experienced a backlash firsthand, when a student excoriated me for defending the free speech rights of a conservative student at a campus forum on freedom of speech. With its lineup of heavy hitters, I thought UATX might be able to reverse the trend."
January 16, 2026 at 10:53 PM
passwordismiket.bsky.social
Every single time with these types it’s “I voiced my opinion, which is the epitome of free speech and healthy debate, and then someone else responded, which is tyranny and oppression.“
Kanelos’ concerns resonated deeply with me, both intellectually and personally. I’m a lifelong civil libertarian and have watched with dismay as both the left and right have eroded academic freedom and open inquiry on college campuses. I’ve chronicled efforts to combat this trend for POLITICO Magazine. And, several years ago, I experienced a backlash firsthand, when a student excoriated me for defending the free speech rights of a conservative student at a campus forum on freedom of speech. With its lineup of heavy hitters, I thought UATX might be able to reverse the trend.
January 17, 2026 at 2:03 AM
cdanby.bsky.social
I think it's also a fault line between one model -- St. John's Annapolis (Kanelos) and a bunch of tiny Catholic schools, which do good education within narrow bounds but which can't turn into a modern university and are limited in their influence, and the ambitions of uatx founders.
January 16, 2026 at 7:05 PM
whetmoser.com
yes, everyone identified was right-wing or IDW. but there was also larry summers
Kanelos identified 32 people as trustees, faculty members and advisers to the new university including Jonathan Haidt, the NYU professor whose work Kanelos evoked in proclaiming that UATX would produce an “antifragile” cohort with the capacity to think “fearlessly, nimbly, and inventively”; Summers; Pinker; the playwright David Mamet; Glenn Loury, an economist at Brown University; computer scientist and podcaster Lex Fridman; authors Andrew Sullivan and Rob Henderson; the journalists Caitlin Flanagan, Sohrab Ahmari and Jonathan Rauch; Stacy Hock, an investor and philanthropist; and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a conservative, Dutch politician-turned-writer known for criticizing Islam’s treatment of women, and who is married to Ferguson. The list leaned right, to be sure. Loury, who is Black, zealously opposes affirmative action. Mamet had called Trump “the best president since Abraham Lincoln.” Hock served as chairwoman of an organization called Texas GOP 2020 Victory. Several of the academics had experienced backlash for taking conservative positions. These included Dorian Abbot, a geophysicist who’d had a planned lecture at MIT on extraterrestrial life canceled over his views on DEI; Peter Boghossian, who’d resigned from Portland State University in part because of the institution’s response to his sending hoax articles to academic journals; and University of Sussex professor Kathleen Stock, who’d faced protests over her allegedly transphobic views, which she disputed. But Summers had served in Bill Clinton’s Cabinet and as Barack Obama’s chief economic advisor. Others were unconventional, independent thinkers, and several, including Haidt and Strossen, had made advocating for free inquiry and open dialogue a major part of their life’s work. It was possible to believe that the group had just enough viewpoint diversity, and a depth of commitment to civil libertarian principles, that it might transcend the virtue signaling, intellectual hegemony and inclination to cancel that h…
January 16, 2026 at 5:08 PM
sprobeforebros.bsky.social
God Kanelos is such a dickweed. I still can’t believe I’ve got even tertiary University of Austin stink on me because of him.
March 6, 2024 at 2:08 PM
bradiscranky.bsky.social
there's a lot to take in, and enjoy, in the piece, but you cannot take the politico out of politico
Kanelos’ concerns resonated deeply with me, both intellectually and personally. I’m a lifelong civil libertarian and have watched with dismay as both the left and right have eroded academic freedom and open inquiry on college campuses. I’ve chronicled efforts to combat this trend for POLITICO Magazine. And, several years ago, I experienced a backlash firsthand, when a student excoriated me for defending the free speech rights of a conservative student at a campus forum on freedom of speech. With its lineup of heavy hitters, I thought UATX might be able to reverse the trend.
January 16, 2026 at 6:32 PM