Are the ivory towers of academia prejudiced against Christians?

That is what Robert Maranto, the 21st Century Chair in Leadership in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, writes about in a guest in the Get Schooled blog.

Maranto explores research on the inner workings of academia that suggests anti-Christian discrimination, saying the bias is akin to college racial discrimination in decades past. Such discrimination produces “like results: alienation and distrust of academic and media expertise, which can be exploited by demagogues like Mr. Trump,” says Maranto.

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