Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture.

I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics at Talbot School

of Theology here at Biota University.

We're here with our guest David French,

who is a New York Times best-selling author,

long career as a religious liberty defending attorney,

graduate of Harvard Law School, columnists for time, senior

editor of the dispatch. David, I'm sure there are a whole host of things we could add to that.

But I want to spend our time today on what I think has become a not only an academic

subject but also a significant cultural one.

And that is with all the discussions about race

that have emerged in the summer of 2020,

a philosophy undergirding our discussions has become more public knowledge and the

notion of critical race theory. Could you tell us a little bit, you've done a lot of

thinking about this, you've been you've been working with critical race theory in one form or another for roughly 30 years

I know ranging back from your time as a law student

But why do you think the discussion of this has

catapulted onto the public scene today sort of come out of the academic shadows

and into the public consciousness much more widely today.

Well, I think, Jett, you're right.

I was essentially taught law by critical race theorists.

The vast majority of the professors that I learned law from were critical race theorists or critical

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