Patrick Henry College, or PHC, is only one of the Heritage Foundation’s recommended “green light” colleges which it calls a “strong choice for families prioritizing freedom, opportunity, and civil society.” The list, as you can imagine, is heavy on evangelical Christian colleges, and some of them, like Ouachita Baptist University are more than 100 years old. But none have had the kind of influence on public life and politics that PHC seems to be having. Patrick Henry College opened barely 25 years ago, and received accreditation from the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges seven years after that. In the time between then and now, PHC has inserted itself at the very pinnacle of political influence — even sitting on the advisory committee for Project 2025, the right-wing playbook that recommends eliminating DEI, cutting foodstamps and Medicaid, drilling on public land, and criminalizing abortion pills.