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On February 14, 2022, well into the nationwide assault on the teaching of critical race theory, the University of Texas at Austin Faculty Council passed a resolution affirming the academic freedom of UT’s faculty to teach critical race theory and any other subject in their area of expertise. The next day, Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick, a regular foe of university faculty, tweeted that he would put a stop to the arrogance of “looney Marxist faculty” by ending tenure at Texas’s public universities.