We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.

Horowitz contrasts two professional ideals: medicine’s norm of impartial care versus what he portrays as academia’s increasing ideological partiality. The claim implies that professors, unlike doctors, allow political or religious commitments to shape how they “minister” to those in their charge—students—through grading, mentoring, classroom climate, or curricular choices. In Horowitz’s broader public project, the line functions as an argument for external scrutiny of universities and for formal protections of viewpoint diversity, suggesting that academic authority has become less trustworthy because it is perceived as politically homogeneous and willing to discriminate against dissenters. The rhetoric also frames education as a fiduciary relationship, where neutrality is owed to the recipient.