Historical shifts: from Puritans to modern universities

If you're going to send your kids or grandkids to university, you need to understand what’s happening there. Because if you don’t, you may be paying for the apostasy of your own children.

That’s not hyperbole. That’s the sobering reality we’re discussing in today’s episode.

Our culture hasn’t just “shifted” over the last five to ten years. According to my guest, it has undergone a soft revolution; one that didn’t begin with riots or political slogans, but in classrooms, lecture halls, and faculty lounges decades ago. The real battleground wasn’t first Washington, it was the university.

Today I’m joined by Dr. Corey Miller, president of Ratio Christi and author of The Progressive Miseducation of America. Drawing from years of teaching philosophy and comparative religion at Indiana University and leading a campus apologetics ministry active on over 100 universities, Dr. Miller explains how higher education became the epicenter of an ideological transformation reshaping the West.

In this conversation, we explore:

What a “soft revolution” actually is—and why it’s more powerful than most people realize

How universities shifted from truth-seeking institutions to engines of worldview formation

Why politics is downstream from culture—and culture is downstream from education

How even Christian colleges are not immune to ideological capture

The rise of what some are calling the “woke right”—and why Dr. Miller argues that label is misleading

Why terms like “dissident right” may better capture the philosophical roots of certain emerging movements

Dr. Miller also shares his personal story—from seventh-generation Mormon (with ancestors connected to Joseph Smith) to skeptic to Christian philosopher—and how that journey shaped his passion to help students not just survive university, but thrive intellectually and spiritually.

Perhaps most importantly, we discuss what parents, pastors, and students can actually do. If revolutions can happen slowly through institutions, then rebuilding must be intentional and long-term. Dr. Miller even talks about a 40–50 year strategy for reclaiming the university.

This episode is sobering, clarifying, and surprisingly hopeful.

If you care about the next generation, about truth, and about the future of Christian witness in the academy.

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