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The expert guests are in culture, law, ethics, philosophy, theology,

and apologetics. Expert guests? Expansive topics. Always extolling Christ. Issues, etc. It was only a couple years ago that either Kevin DeYoung or Neil Shenvi coined the term woke right.

What they had noticed was that certainly among progressives, critical race theory or critical theory in general was

running the day, the notion that we can be divided in an essential way by our race or that there

are systems that need to be destroyed and rebuilt in an entirely new image. It certainly had its

traction in the progressive side of the culture, war,

and political divide. But Shenvi noticed that, in fact, those ideas were also occurring,

and that foundational way of approaching the world was also occurring on what we usually

refer to as the right. Joining us to talk about critical theory on the right, Dr. Carl Truman,

he's professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College. He's a fellow at the Ethics

and Public Policy Center. He's author of several books, including To Change All Worlds, Critical Theory

from Marx to Markozy, and a recent column for First Things titled how critical theory paved the way for Nick

Quentes.

Dr. Truman, welcome back.

It's good to be here. Thanks to having me on.

Just refresh our memory. We've talked about it many times over the last several years, but what is critical theory?

Well, critical theory is a term that's now used to cover a variety of approaches to thinking about

culture and politics. Had its origins in the 1920s and 1930s with a group of German thinkers, known as

the Frankfurt School. Essentially, what critical theory is, it's an attempt to destabilize the status quo traditional philosophy we might

say as a descriptive discipline it's attempting to describe and explain the world critical theory

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