Jessica Morey teaches African-American history, Advanced Placement U.S. history, A.P. U.S. government, and economics at St. Francis Catholic High School in Gainesville, Florida. She says she does not teach critical race theory. In a recent piece at The Gainesville Sun, […]
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“Far more Americans have learned about critical race theory from its opponents than from the theorists themselves”
Adam Kirsch of The Wall Street Journal writes, “In the life of any big idea, there comes a moment when it stops belonging to the thinkers who invented it and becomes public property. Today, critical race theory is undergoing that […]
Systemic Failure: White Evangelicals and Critical Race Theory
White evangelicals were quick to repent of racism in the civil rights era. That doesn’t mean
they’ll embrace critical race theory today.
Souderton, Pennsylvania debates “critical race theory”
A recent school district meeting on critical race theory in Souderton, Pennsylvania reveals just how crazy this entire debate has become. Based on Kenny Cooper’s reporting of the event at the website of WHYY (Philadelphia’s public broadcasting television and radio […]
John McWhorter on critical race theory and what is happening in schools under the name of “critical race theory”
The Columbia University professor lets it rip, as he is prone to do, at his Substack newsletter. A lot of things worth considering here. McWhorter has always made a lot of sense to me on this issue. Here is a […]
Michael Gerson offers a nuanced take on critical race theory
Here is Gerson’s recent column at The Washington Post: For most people, wokeness involves being mindful of the cruel and oppressive portions of American history, being alert to persistent structural racism, and being determined to right past and present wrongs. This is […]
Florida senator Rick Scott introduces a resolution condemning critical race theory
More of the same. Indiana’s Mike Braun and Tennessee’s Marsha Blackburn are also on board. Here is the text of the resolution. Expressing the sense of the Senate that Critical Race Theory serves as a prejudicial ideological tool, rather than […]
An Open Letter to American History Teachers: Stop Teaching “Critical Race Theory.”
The truth about race is out there. And it doesn’t take an academic theorist to see it.
Most critics of critical race theory have no idea what they are talking about
I linked to David Theo Goldberg‘s Boston Review piece on critical race theory in last weekend’s odds and ends, but I think the piece is worth a separate post. I am convinced that most of the conservatives afraid of critical […]
Oklahoma is trying to ban the teaching of critical race theory. What does this mean for how U.S. history is taught in the state?
Here is Janelle Stecklein at The Ada News: A bill attempting to ban the teaching of “critical race theory” in Oklahoma’s public schools cleared the Legislature Thursday. House Bill 1775, which also bans mandatory gender and sexual diversity training for […]
The Wheaton College professor who teaches critical race theory
Over at Sojourners, Mitchell Atencio interviews Wheaton College (IL) philosophy professor Nathan Cartagena. Here is a taste of the interview: Mitchell Atencio, Sojourners: Because critical race theory has become such a hot-button issue, especially in white evangelical circles, do you […]
The Democratic race for Pat Toomey’s Senate seat reveals the divisions in the party
The frontrunner is Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman. His top challenger is western Pennsylvania congressman Conor Lamb. Here is Holly Otterbein at Politico: One candidate promises he won’t be a centrist Democratic senator like Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema. Another […]
David Dark exhorts us to “fear no theory”
Back in September 2020 I asked, “who’s afraid of critical race theory?” Over at his Substack page, writer David Dark seems to be asking the same question and offering a much more elegant answer. Here is a taste of his […]
A Missouri legislative committee held a hearing on teaching race and racism. No Black parents, teachers, or scholars testified
Seriously? Here is Summer Ballentine at the Associated Press: A Missouri legislative committee on Monday held a hearing on how educators teach K-12 students about race and racism without hearing from any Black Missourians. No Black parents, teachers or scholars […]
Are you a hedgehog when it comes to race?
I am not sure Lance Morrow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center fully understands critical race theory. In his recent Wall Street Journal piece he seems to equate the theory with a “single-minded ideology” that “sees racism in every […]
Matt Taibbi: “NPR has not run a piece critical of Democrats since Christ was a boy”
For a similar analysis, check out Tim Larsen’s May 17, 2021 piece at Current: “NPR Insults the Prophet Muhammad?“ Here is a Taibbi at his Substack newsletter: Yesterday’s NPR article, “Outrage As A Business Model: How Ben Shapiro Is Using […]
Critical race theorist: “CRT is a pretty good lens for understanding why the campaign against it has been able to spread so fast”
Gary Peller, a constitutional law professor at Georgetown University, is “astonished” that his academic work is getting such attention. Here is a taste of his piece at Politico: As a law professor closely associated with the critical race theory movement […]
Do Marxists, critical race theorists, and Tucker Carlson have anything in common?
Anne Applebaum is going to catch hell for this column, but she is right. The subtitle of her Atlantic piece reads: “Marxist literary scholars and popularizers of critical race theory have one thing in common with certain GOP commentators: a […]
What did anti-1619 Project U.S. senators learn about race from their school textbooks?
The Root just published excerpts of U.S. history textbooks used in schools attended by the thirty-eight Republican senators, including majority leader Mitch McConnell, who recently signed a letter criticizing the New York Times 1619 Project and critical race theory. Here […]
Should History Make You Feel Bad?
Critical race theory is flawed. Banning it is far worse.Â