more focused on economic and social needs than on philosophy and the study of ethics. Boundaries W hat American higher education lost when it became secularized was a necessary sense of moral bound- aries—these are the boundaries of God-given truth that confirm common sense, natural law, and intel- lectual sanity. A good education, a classic liberal ed- ucation, is open to engaging all ideas, but with truth judging the debate—not you, me, or self-absorbed snowflakes. It is the Left’s refusal to debate—its insistence on a secular, divisive, cultural Marxist orthodoxy of race, sex, and class, rather than the unifying orthodoxy of Christian truth—that is the dominant reality on campuses across the country. From Jewish conservative Ben Shapiro being prevented from speaking at DePaul University, to conservative students being arrested for handing out pocket Constitutions, the list goes on and on, and it only continues to get worse as students and administrators try to prevent themselves from having their secular, leftist, often anti-American orthodoxies challenged. At most universities, intellectual nihilism, sexual licentiousness, and intolerance of dissent are the norm. “When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty,” said G.K. Chesterton, “you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.” And that is what we have today on our campuses—no regulations on profanity but countless regulations on legitimate political speech; sinful invitations to sexual licen- tiousness and a Byzantine legal catechism to define consent; endless professions of the joys of tolerance with endless claims of microaggressions that assume everyone—or at least privileged minority groups—is expected to be rightly offended all the time. We’ve forgotten that education should be about perpetuating big ideas from big books and that true liberty comes when we are liberated from subjectivism by objective truth. Time to Go Home T he university was founded as a Christian institution. But most of our modem uni- versities have denied our Father’s wisdom and ignored His teaching. Looking at this world we have created—a world of confusion over the most basic biological truths of life and sex; of blatant dis- honesty and hate disguised as tolerance and diver- sity; of ignorance dressed up as righteousness— perhaps it’s time to ask ourselves if having our own way, outside the boundaries of the Bible, has resulted in what we expected, or if we have stumbled into a nightmare of abuse, addiction, dysfunction, irresponsibility, lies, and selfishness. Dare we consider God is King? Dare we consider education was better in the past when we acknowledged that fact? Dare we consider America, founded in liberty under law, as given by God, is in danger of losing that freedom if we lose God? We should consider these questions very soberly indeed. Ĩ 48 WWW.AGRM.ORG MAY/JUNE 2018 Everett will be a keynote speaker at AGRM’s 2018 Annual Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 12–15. He is president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and a regularly featured commentator on national television and talk radio. From the book, Not a Daycare. Copyright © 2017 by Everett Piper. Published by Regnery Publishing. All rights reserved. Perhaps it’s time to ask ourselves if having our own way, outside the boundaries of the Bible, has resulted in what we expected, or if we have stumbled into a nightmare of abuse, addiction, dysfunction, irresponsibility, lies, and selfishness.