The Briefing with Albert Mohler Thursday, February 5, 2026
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Feb 5, 2026 A look at sweeping changes in higher education culture and why conservatives underestimated campus shifts. Discussion of Texas A&M cutting a women’s-studies major and what that signals about ideology. Examination of academic echo chambers, a journal’s uniform critique of America, and faculty self-replication. A critique of grade inflation at a top university and a quick note on looming DHS funding fights.
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Universities Became Self-Replicating Ideological Ecosystems
- American higher education has become a self-replicating leftward ecosystem that creates and normalizes activist departments.
- These programs often lack ideological balance because the disciplines themselves are formed around leftist frameworks like identity politics.
Student Example Of Faculty Homogeneity
- Mohler recounts a student observing that lesbians outnumbered non-lesbians on one women's studies faculty at a university.
- He uses the student's story to illustrate how ideological and demographic homogeneity can appear in these departments.
How Intersectionality Fuels Department Proliferation
- Identity politics and intersectionality structurally justify creating specialized departments for underrepresented groups.
- That logic produces proliferating niche programs that frame curriculum around claims of systemic oppression and intersecting identities.