The shift of many public universities from a commitment to disinterested inquiry to social activism informed by liberationist ideologies is one of the most alarming aspects of contemporary America. These institutions train people entering business and the professions, and their partisanship for the hard left bodes ill for the future of freedom in general, and Christianity in particular. This shift was the topic of a discussion by Bob Osburn, a Senior Fellow with Wilberforce International at the annual L’Abri conference in Rochester Minnesota on February 18.
A term commonly used for this type of ideological commitment is “woke.” Osburn said “it’s that sense of awakening from what … Marx would have called a ‘false consciousness’ … What essentially happens when people become aware of the fact that the world is made up of oppressors and the oppressed and that’s really the only really fundamental social division that matters – when you become aware of that, when…
