I'm a conservative student and the No. 1 question I get is: 'How do I survive leftist professors?'

Something is profoundly breached successful American higher acquisition erstwhile students consciousness they indispensable fell their beliefs, oregon worse, unreal to beryllium liberals, conscionable to past a class. And arsenic a assemblage freshman, I perceive this from my ain friends each azygous week.

It’s not hypothetical for me, it’s the regular world of the radical I beryllium adjacent to successful the eating hall, survey with, successful the library, and locomotion past connected the mode to class.

When I did Q&As connected 10 antithetic campuses this semester, earlier students asked maine astir geopolitics, overseas aid, the election, oregon adjacent the outgo of living, they each asked the aforesaid happening first: "How bash I past assemblage arsenic a conservative?" Every campus. Every crowd. Every time. That tells you everything you request to cognize astir the clime students are facing.

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Yet that is precisely what’s happening connected campuses crossed the country, and the latest illustration retired of the University of Oklahoma is intolerable to ignore.

A aesculapian pupil astatine the university, Samantha Fulneck, precocious failed an opinion-based duty due to the fact that she quoted the Bible successful her effort connected sex roles. The teaching assistant, a self-identified transgender instructor, marked her down not due to the fact that her enactment lacked operation oregon clarity, but due to the fact that her reasoning came from a worldview the prof didn’t personally accept. And this is precisely the benignant of happening students pulled maine speech to archer maine astir astatine each azygous schoolhouse I visited, stories whispered quietly, similar they were confessing thing dangerous, due to the fact that that’s however it feels to them.

Let’s beryllium precise clear: If your people depends connected agreeing with your professor, the people isn’t astir acquisition — it’s astir indoctrination.

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But this incidental isn’t conscionable astir 1 prof oregon 1 school. It’s a grounds of a civilization that has  taken basal successful academia implicit the past decennary — 1 that demands uniformity, punishes dissent and treats Christian oregon blimpish students arsenic unwelcome intruders successful their ain classrooms. On aggregate campuses, students told maine they constitute 2 versions of each essay, the existent 1 they judge past the "safe" 1 they really crook in. Others told maine they debar definite majors wholly due to the fact that they cognize disagreement isn’t allowed. These aren’t isolated fears; they’re patterns. And I perceive them successful reddish states, bluish states, large universities and tiny backstage colleges alike.

And cipher should person to wage thousands of dollars successful tuition conscionable to beryllium told their beliefs are unacceptable.

OU pupil Samantha Fulnecky successful the Oklahoma Memorial Union, Monday, Nov. 24, 2025. (Doug Hoke/The Oklahoman/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

The near loves to usage phrases similar "diversity" and "inclusion," but those words someway ne'er use to diverseness of thought oregon inclusion of faith. You tin punctuation Freud, Foucault, oregon the latest TikTok influencer successful your paper, but bring successful Scripture, and abruptly you’ve committed an world sin. Students told maine they’ve had professors praise "open dialogue" connected the archetypal time of class, lone to walk the remainder of the semester making it wide which opinions volition outgo them their grade.

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The irony is astir excessively affluent to ignore: Universities that preach tolerance person someway go the slightest tolerant places successful American life.

The intent of acquisition utilized to beryllium to equip students to deliberation critically, statement honestly, and measure competing ideas. Today, excessively galore classrooms relation similar echo chambers wherever disagreement is treated arsenic a threat, not an accidental for honorable conversation.

And for Christian and blimpish students, the connection is large and clear: Conform oregon beryllium punished.

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I watched this play retired successful existent time. At 1 field wherever I spoke, a pupil waited until everyone other had near conscionable to whisper, "What bash I accidental erstwhile my prof mocks Christianity?"

At another, a pupil told maine their prof openly admits to grading conservatives much harshly due to the fact that of our "dangerous worldview". These aren’t "Internet stories." These are existent kids, with existent fears, looking for support to breathe.

Let’s halt pretending this is coming from "educators."

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These are activists wearing prof badges.

Many universities person abandoned the thought that a schoolroom is simply a marketplace of ideas. Instead, they dainty it arsenic a grooming crushed for ideological alignment. Students aren’t encouraged to inquire questions; they’re expected to memorize the "correct" answers. And if those answers struggle with their faith, their upbringing, their motivation framework, oregon adjacent basal communal sense? Too bad. Students told maine they’ve learned to work the country earlier they speak, to scan for who’s listening, to take their words cautiously, not due to the fact that they deficiency conviction, but due to the fact that they cognize the incorrect condemnation tin travel them for 4 years.

But here’s the astir important part: Students spot it. They consciousness it. And they’re bushed of it.

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Young radical contiguous are much alert of treble standards than ever. They tin spot erstwhile disapproval is selective, erstwhile biases are obvious, and erstwhile the idiosyncratic grading their insubstantial cares much astir authorities than teaching. And erstwhile a pupil gets failed for citing the Bible successful an sentiment essay, the bias isn’t subtle. It’s a billboard. The result? Silence, fear, and self-censorship.

And that’s precisely what galore professors want.

If students are intimidated into silence, the activist-educator ne'er has to support their ideas. They ne'er person to warrant their assumptions. They ne'er person to prosecute successful existent debate.

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The easiest schoolroom to power is the 1 wherever the blimpish students person already learned to support their heads down.

But that soundlessness comes astatine a cost, not lone for students, but for the integrity of academia itself. When lone 1 viewpoint is allowed, acquisition becomes propaganda. When students halt asking hard questions, learning stops entirely. And erstwhile professors punish spiritual oregon governmental identity, they aren’t conscionable breaking trust, they’re breaking the precise intent of their profession. And that outgo is precisely wherefore students kept lining up aft my events, not for selfies, but for reassurance. Reassurance that they’re not crazy, not alone, and not incorrect for refusing to surrender their beliefs.

The solution isn’t complicated.

It doesn’t necessitate national investigations oregon monolithic caller bureaucracies.

It conscionable requires courage.

Sunlight fixes this.

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Exposure fixes this.

Young radical refusing to rotation implicit fixes this.

Every clip a communicative similar the OU lawsuit goes public, it forces universities to face what they’ve allowed to fester. Administrators don’t alteration due to the fact that they abruptly rediscover their motivation compass. They alteration due to the fact that parents commencement asking questions, donors commencement demanding accountability and lawmakers statesman paying attention.

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The much students archer their stories, the harder it becomes for universities to fell down bare slogans astir inclusion. Because thing reveals hypocrisy faster than a Christian pupil getting failed for having a content rooted successful Scripture.

Students shouldn’t person to unreal to beryllium liberals conscionable to walk a class. They shouldn’t consciousness pressured to rewrite their religion to debar offending a professor. They shouldn’t person to take betwixt information and a GPA. And they surely shouldn’t beryllium punished for believing thing that billions of radical crossed the globe believe, and person believed for thousands of years.

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It’s clip for students, particularly blimpish and Christian students, to basal firm. Not with anger, not with outrage, but with clarity, confidence, and conviction.

Because the infinitesimal you unit a pupil to contradict their beliefs successful speech for a passing grade, you haven’t educated them.

You’ve coerced them.

And coercion has nary spot successful a classroom.

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If universities genuinely attraction astir world excellence, genuine diversity, and preparing young radical for the satellite they’re astir to lead, past it’s clip for them to signifier the tolerance they preach.

Until then, sunlight volition proceed to exposure what’s happening down closed doors, and students indispensable proceed to garbage to rotation over.

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