Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Joining me on the show today is Christopher Rufo. He's a contributing editor at the magazine and a regular figure on this podcast. He's been with us a number of times.

He's a documentary filmmaker based in Seattle. He's the director of the Discovery Institute Center on Wealth

and Poverty, and as I noted, he is a City Journal contributing editor. You can find him on

Twitter at Real Chris Rufo. Chris has been writing an ongoing series for us at City Journal

on the impact of critical race theory in American schools.

He's up to eight pieces in the series, and they've started really to generate a lot of attention.

As many of our listeners are probably aware, CRT, or variations of it, has been popular in elite institutions like universities

for a while now, but its push into K-12 education, both public and private, has been motivated

in part by the George Floyd protests this past summer, and it has, I believe, been a wake-up call for many Americans

who find the content of this quite disturbing. We've published, as I mentioned, eight of these

pieces so far as part of the series, and you can expect them more in the pipeline soon. If you haven't read any of them, I really

encourage you to check them out because they're just filled with stunning details. And we'll

talk about some of the stories here on the podcast today. So Chris, thanks again for joining us,

as always. That's great to be with you. Before we get into some of these specific cases you've written about,

I wanted to recognize that you've developed quite an audience for your work over the last year.

Many of the stories you've reported on have come from anonymous individuals or whistleblowers

at companies or schools that are undergoing this kind of

diversity training, CRT-inspired diversity training, or something very similar to it.

I wonder if you could explain to our listeners how your sources are contacting you, because

this is very interesting, and what kind of folks

are getting in touch with you?

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