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The University of Austin Theater Company presents J. B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, a tightly drawn psychological and social drama in which a polished family evening gives way to something far more unsettling.

On an evening of celebration, the prosperous Birling family is interrupted by the arrival of a police inspector investigating the death of a young woman. What begins as a series of simple questions gradually unsettles the family’s confidence in itself, revealing the uneasy distance between respectability and responsibility. Elegant, suspenseful, and quietly unsettling, An Inspector Calls asks what we owe to one another—and what happens when that question can no longer be avoided.

Please note: This production contains mature themes and content. Please use discretion when deciding whether this production is appropriate for younger audience members.

How do allies who distrust one another still manage to win a world war? Award-winning historian Tim Bouverie takes up that question in his latest book, Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World. He traces the fractious, high-stakes coalition that defeated the Axis and draws pointed parallels between the international tensions of the 1940s and the fault lines dividing the world today.

The acclaimed Miro Quartet opens the program with Schubert's Quartettsatz and Beethoven's String Quartet in F major, Op. 135, his last completed quartet. The Miró Quartet has served as the quartet in residence at the Butler School of Music since 2003. After intermission, pianist Anton Nell joins the quartet for Dvořák's Piano Quintet, the first public performance on UATX's new Model D Steinway. Our chamber music series is built to educate as well as entertain. It welcomes students, faculty, staff, and the wider UATX community to hear great works performed live by world-class musicians.

Join us for the English-language book launch of Nazi-Communism: Why Marxist-Leminists and Nazi Fascists Are Ideological Twins. Nazi-Communism: Why Marxist-Leninists and Nazi Fascists Are Ideological Twins is a provocative, meticulously argued treatise that dismantles the conventional narrative separating Nazism from communism. Drawing on extensive historical, philosophical, and economic analysis, Kaiser demonstrates that both ideologies are not opposites but fraternal variants of the same socialist root—united by their rejection of core Western values. The book is structured around five shared negations that define their common essence: anti-rationalism (polylogism, where truth is class- or race-conditioned, destroying objective reason and enabling “Aryan science” or “proletarian science”); anti-individualism (collectivism that subordinates the person to the tribe—class or race—and dismisses human rights as bourgeois/Jewish frauds); anti-capitalism (both as socialist reactions against liberal markets, with Nazi economics mirroring communist central planning and failure); anti-Christianity (Gnostic political religions promising secular utopias through the destruction of the Judeo-Christian order); and anti-humanism (Luciferian hubris to “purify” humanity via terror, creating a “new man” while annihilating the old, from gulags to Auschwitz). Kaiser exposes the double standard in academia and culture that sanitizes communism’s 100+ million victims while demonizing Nazism alone, arguing that Nazism is essentially communism stripped of internationalism and its inclusive utopian mask. Richly documented with quotes from Hayek, Mises, Popper, Arendt, Orwell, Solzhenitsyn, and primary sources (including Hitler, Lenin, Marx, Engels, Goebbels, and Mussolini), the book is both a scholarly demolition of Marxist apologetics and a passionate defense of individualism, reason, capitalism, and the Judeo-Christian tradition. It serves as a timely warning against resurgent collectivism and those “fascists disguised as anti-fascists.”