To combat the fear of saying the wrong thing, the University of Austin uses the Chatham House Rule: What happens in the classroom stays there. Students can reference discussions but cannot attribute them to a specific person. “People fear that the thing they said that was not right, was politically incorrect, ends up on X or, for that matter, on Instagram," says Niall Ferguson, one of the founders of UATX, which launched in 2024. Ferguson is a historian known for his conservative views. He spent more than a decade as a professor at Harvard and is a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. #60minutes #universityofaustin