The Progressive Miseducation of America: Confronting the Cultural Revolution from the Classroom to Your Community

by Corey Miller

If You Want to Change the World, Change the University

Our culture is undergoing radical change. We see evidence of this cultural revolution all around us as values, norms, language, and laws all shift beneath our feet. But this revolution didn’t come out of nowhere—and it isn’t too late to stop it.

The Progressive Miseducation of America is an eye-opening look at how our universities have polluted the cultural landscape we live in today—and how Christians can take strategic actions in response. As a dedicated student of culture and revolutionary history, Corey Miller brings clear insights and actionable ideas to help you
  understand and defend against ideas subversive to the Christian faith further the Christian life and worldview through intentional methods of being salt and light inspire change not only within your family and church, but in the broader culture  
Sobering yet optimistic, this bold and inspiring resource will equip you to take concrete steps in making the largest and most sustainable difference in both your community and the world!

336 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 14, 2025

About the author

Corey Miller, PhD, is the President/CEO of Ratio Christi (2015). While he grew up in Utah as a sixth generation Mormon, he came to Christ in 1988 and he has since been a youth and college pastor, a Bible college and university professor, campus minister, lecturer, and first and foremost an evangelist. From 2009-15 he served on staff with Cru's Faculty Commons ministry at Purdue. He is an Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Religions at Indiana University-Kokomo. He is variously published in journals. He is co-author of Leaving Mormonism: Why Four Scholars Changed their Minds (2017), co-editor of Is Faith in God Reasonable? Debates in Philosophy, Science, and Rhetoric (2014), and author of Moses, Maimonides, and Thomas Aquinas on the Good Life: From the Fall to Human Perfectibility (forthcoming 2018). He holds masters degrees in philosophy, biblical studies, and in philosophy of religion and ethics. His PhD is in philosophical theology from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Miller lives with his wife Melinda and three children in Indiana. He is passionate about defending and proclaiming the truth of the Gospel in winsome and bold ways.

Reviews

[Jennifer DeFrates · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you're wondering what in the world is happening at universities today and how is that affecting our culture and kids, this is a great place to start doing research. Corey Miller explains the origins of universities, the ideals our American universities were founded upon, and how the ideas of Marxism have slowly crept in and taken over education in America. This is how we've become a divided country in so many ways. We are not just seeing students leave public schools and college as liberals, which was typical in the 60s-90s, but radical leftist activists pushing the ideas of Marxism, but lacking any critical thinking skills. If we hope to maintain America's foundational truths about the value of human life and the dignity of each person, we have to reclaim education from the ground up. I listened to this audiobook and enjoyed it so much I also purchased a physical copy. Don't miss this important book if you want Christian values to continue to shape our nation and our world because they are the foundation of what is truly true.

[Paul Burton · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Christian Church as a forerunner of education throughout the world bore the torch of light and guidance for generations, even with all of its faults. It brought education all over the world. But it appears that it dropped that torch years ago, possibly with the movement of anti-intellectualism. Instead of holding their ground in the university, it appears they let the wolves in to recruit the sheep with their doctrines, shining a light that was not a light at all. Have you noticed a shift away from global missions and to racial injustice? Has the mission of the church been thwarted by subversive donations and ideas that have lead us to a mission drift? “Mission drift is like entropy, it’s the natural course if it is not guarded against.” Have you noticed a change in focus from Christ and mercy to “Social Justice,” “DEI” and “love is love” introducing a different definition of love entirely? We all have. Many of us were unaware, but what can we do about it now? I think many of us need to be educated and reading Dr. Miller’s book is a good way to do this. It is not primarily a text about philosophy or politics, but also Christian responsibility. The spirit of the times influenced the church. Wokeness, DEI, Queer Theory, Critical Pedagogy, Critical Theory, Postmodernism, neo-Marxism, Liberation Theology, Marxism, Naturalism and Atheism are all a part of a sinister ideology that has been working to undermine Christianity and America. Dr. Miller takes on a role of Virgil as he strolls around hell with Dante (the reader), showing you what was there but unseen all along and helping you to leave the pits with some hope. He points to the Gospel as the exit to the “inferno” and gives advice as how we can try to combat (intellectually) the doctrines of demons that would take away our rights and heritage. Dr. Miller’s new book should be in every church library, even outside of the US. In his words: “The universities are a monolithic echo chamber, whose ideology is anything but diverse. It creates a very unhealthy situation, and coupled with pressure created by blasphemy laws for those who violate political truth—is it any wonder huge percentages of Christian students lose their faith upon entering the secular baptismal font known as the university? This has a leavening effect on culture after they graduate. It creates a situation where Christian parents and grandparents are literally paying for the apostasy of their own children.” I highly recommend his book.