The article appears in "The Revealer," an online magazine published by The Center for Religion and Media at New York University.
Andrew Monteith, associate professor of religious studies, has published an article titled “The Attacks on Higher Education Have Religious Roots.”
In the article, Monteith argues that the Heritage Foundation’s Christian nationalism has driven federal intrusions into higher education. The organization is most famous for Project 2025, but Monteith argues we must look beyond this to see what they actually want. Monteith shows how President Donald Trump’s education reforms mirror the strategies Heritage has long advocated.
According to Monteith, the Heritage Foundation suggests that federal and state governments ought to target weak points in universities’ financial systems, using this as leverage to compel orthodoxy, end DEI, reduce admission rates for international students and increase American birthrates.
The article appears in “The Revealer,” an online magazine published by The Center for Religion and Media at New York University.