Read the conservative op-ed the Texas A&M student paper refused to publish

The College Fix ^ | 11/20/2025 | Guest Columnist and Justino Russell

[DFG]

The Battalion student newspaper at Texas A&M university does not seem to be a fan of conservative student thought. An analysis of the 60 opinion pieces focused on politics published since November 2024 found that nearly all of them — 50 — leaned liberal (35), left-leaning (5), far-left (5), and liberal satire (5).

Only 7 of the opinion political pieces were moderate or neutral, and a total of three were conservative, or a ratio of almost 17 to 1 liberal to conservative.

The research was conducted by student Justino Russell, who was inspired to dig into the analysis after the student newspaper refused to run his op-ed submission. Russell sought to respond to a Sept. 23 op-ed authored by an anonymous tenured Texas A&M professor addressed as “a letter to the Students.”

The professor’s 1,000-plus word op-ed defends woke faculty and DEI-related issues, and urges students to organize against conservative political interference allegedly undermining academic freedom.

Russell penned a rebuttal, but it was rejected, because the staff does “not believe the point-by-point polemical style of this piece aligns with the opinion desk’s current editorial priorities. For this reason, we must unfortunately reject your submission.”

The College Fix is publishing Russell’s op-ed submission below in full:

Dear Anonymous Professor:

You are profoundly detached from the real issues affecting us, our families, our country, and the world today.

We are the most depressed, anxious, suicidal, obese, addicted, and indebted generation in American history, and the first to be worse off than our parents. We are forced to take pointless courses, buy outrageously expensive textbooks for information freely available online, and serve as a captive audience in a system where everyone—from publishers, administrators, and banks to professors like you—profits while we drown in debt.

The numbers don’t lie: almost 40% of students drop out, burdened by loans but no degree. Half of those who graduate end up in jobs that never required a degree in the first place. A bachelor’s degree has become a $100,000 high school diploma.

What caused this collapse, you ask?

You and your ideologies did. You are no longer educating us to build, compete, and lead. You are indoctrinating us to deconstruct, resent, and surrender.

In economics, you promote Marx and Keynesian financialization, offshoring, and money printing—policies that make homes unaffordable and force us to work two jobs just to pay bills. You omit Austrian School economists like Mises and Hayek, who defended the free markets that built the unprecedented prosperity we enjoy today. You smear capitalism as “oppressive” while pushing the actually oppressive redistribution schemes that have failed everywhere they’ve been tried.

In psychology, you idolize Alfred Kinsey as the father of the sexual revolution and John Money as the one who coined the word “gender” as separate from sex. Yet you never tell us that Kinsey gathered data from pedophiles who abused babies, and that Money’s theory was founded on his experiments with the Reimer twins, both of whom committed suicide from the trauma.

In literature, you replace Shakespeare, Dickens, and Dante with a racist DEI quota system, choosing books based on race and victimhood instead of merit. The more “marginalized” the author, the less their work is critiqued and the more you celebrate it.

In sociology, you force-feed us feminism, an ideology that teaches women to resent men, motherhood, and family. You glorify Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan but hide the inconvenient truth: that single, childless women are the unhappiest demographic, while married women in Christian households report the highest life and sexual satisfaction.

In history, you teach that slavery was America’s unique sin, ignoring that it was universal until White Christian nations abolished it first. You never mention the 600,000 Americans who died ending it, the Royal Navy’s anti-slavery squadron that liberated 150,000 slaves, or that slavery still thrives in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

In philosophy, you prioritize Marx, Freud, and Foucault—the philosophers of disorder—over Aristotle, Aquinas, and Locke, who built the foundations of virtue, natural law, and liberty. You conveniently leave out that the philosophical purpose of freedom is to do what is good, not to do whatever we want.

In political science, you present the genocidal failures of Marxism, socialism, and communism as “viable alternatives” for academic debate, while downplaying the brilliant, liberty-ensuring architecture of our Constitution. You dismiss foundational mechanisms like the separation of powers and the Electoral College as archaic flaws, and ignore the wisdom of the Federalist Papers, because you are racist toward the White Christian males who authored them.

In the sciences, you deny the biological reality of sex, even though every single one of the 60 trillion cells in the human body is either male or female, and no amount of hormones can change that. Instead of helping people with body image and mental health issues, you promote their permanent and irreversible mutilation to virtue signal.

And we could go on. But the bitter irony is that you stand on the shoulders of the giants who built this country, this state, and this university, using your cushy job to spit on their legacy and the values that have given you everything you enjoy today. You take parents’ life savings and teach their kids to hate them, their faith, and their heritage, causing fights over Thanksgiving dinner.

You aren’t teaching us how to think; you’re teaching us what to think. You turned a marketplace of ideas, where each side is supposed to be heard equally, into an indoctrination camp where only the approved party line is parroted. You created the first generations in world history without love for their God, their family, or their country—and then wonder why they’re miserable.

Meanwhile, China, Russia, and our competitors teach their engineers calculus and physics, not gender studies and wokeness. They laugh at us as they dominate in AI, energy, and manufacturing.

So why are you scared when taxpayers demand a return to excellence? Why fear being recorded? What are you teaching that can’t stand scrutiny? Lobotomies and eugenics were once taught, too. The gender unicorn is just the current pseudoscience.

You’re not scared of politicians. You’re scared of losing your six-figure, taxpayer-funded salary because your indoctrination model is failing. What you’re seeing around you is a call on Texas A&M, the nation’s universities, and the West to become once more the leader of the educational world, as it is the leader of the free world. We need engineers, not ideologues: builders, not critics.

We need more Charlie Kirks, not more Ibram X. Kendis. We are your customers, your bosses, and your product is broken. Don’t gaslight us for demanding a better one.

Justino Russell

Texas A&M Student

P.S. I want to defend the truth, so I’ll sign my name. If you were teaching the truth, why didn’t you sign with yours?

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TOPICS: Education
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[DFG]

Texas A&M student Justino Russell wrote an awesome op-ed to rebut the anonymous cowardly professor.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/11/a-college-student-speaks.php

[Wuli]

ping

[Midwesterner53]

The Battalion student newspaper must believe Biden is still commander in chief. Just proves Hegseth has much work still to do.

[Karliner]

Nice.
The downward slide and doubling down on Marxism/etc continues

[Texas Eagle]

Start your own student newspaper.

[DarrellZero]

So they refused to publish it in a place no one will read it, and instead now it’s plastered all over every social media platform.

That’s some Wile E Coyote level backfiring.

[GOPJ]

We are forced to take pointless courses, buy outrageously expensive textbooks for information freely available online, and serve as a captive audience in a system where everyone—from publishers, administrators, and banks to professors like you—profits while we drown in debt.

I had a friend years ago who accepted a job writing science (chemistry and biology) textbooks for college students. He thought it would be fun and besides it was an early 'work for home' side project - and he was an' on sabbatical' professor. Anyhow what he discovered was the publisher wanted a rewrite of information from former books and the project ONLY was to force students to buy new textbooks rather than buying used textbooks. So he basically did a rewrite - and felt disgusted. He's been dead for many years but I suspect liberal 'elites' running our colleges haven't changed. And Larry Summers? He wanted Epstein to help him get a woman 'horizontal'... And that's a Harvard President - we can assume the rest are the same or worse.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[hoosierham]

Government funding or guaranteeing of student loans should never have happened. Just like Section 8 housing. Both only enrich the businesses and inflated the costs for everyone.

[Bullish]

Professors like the one he wrote this letter to are consumed with hatred of the Christian right. That hatred colors ever single ideology they demand allegiance to. Literally all of the progressive puritanism they endlessly push on their students is grounded in hatred of Christianity and seeks to tear it down and eliminate it from society.

We need to fight against these colleges and these horrible, monstrous ideologies. It’s a fight we better not lose, our kids futures depends on it.

[GOPJ]

Colleges should be guaranteeing half the loan amount of any students they accept.

They might be a little more selective about who they accept and what they teach. If it turned out ‘commie activists’ majors couldn’t get jobs and tended not to pay back their loans, they might decide to drop that major.

[ridesthemiles]

“PARTICIPATION TROPHIES” ARE ALSO A FACTOR, IMO.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

That’s a very well-written rebuttal. Kid is probably going places after that gets published.

[Callnote]

anyone surprised by this may not actually know why they think what they think much at all , probably...

[Socon-Econ]

That student newspaper had better not be operating on public funds.

[Robert DeLong]

Now this is a post that can easily be ignored. But you shouldn't

Beacuse it is one that shouuld be read by every Freeper that frwquwntss this board. Sadly, far too often I find that many of them are products of the educational system that Justino describes, amd they do not even see that they are.

I urge everyone to spend the few minutes it akes to read this very poignant, well developed piece for what it offers.

Thanks for posting.

[mewzilla]

Nobody forced those students.

That’s on them.

[TalBlack]

The first two paragraphs: You are profoundly detached from the real issues affecting us, our families, our country, and the world today.

We are the most depressed, anxious, suicidal, obese, addicted, and indebted generation in American history, and the first to be worse off than our parents. We are forced to take pointless courses, buy outrageously expensive textbooks for information freely available online, and serve as a captive audience in a system where everyone—from publishers, administrators, and banks to professors like you—profits while we drown in debt.

Talk about a truth bomb. No way they print this.

[Bikkuri]

Such a shame.
A&M used to be one of the most conservative universities.

[Tzimisce]

There is no left wing media bias.

If you racist, sexist, homophobic, hatefilled MAGA types were smarter, you’d know that.