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Federalist Radio Hour

Debunking The ‘Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me’

Federalist Radio Hour

Radio America

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Wilfred Reilly, an associate professor of political science at Kentucky State University, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss the false narratives plaguing American curricula and classrooms and explain why the lies students learn in school are so dangerous to the nation. 

You can find Reilly's book, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula, here.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're going to go. And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

0:19.8

I'm Matt Kittel Senior Elections Correspondent

0:22.8

at the Federalist and your experience Sherpa

0:25.9

on today's quest for knowledge.

0:28.1

As always, you can email the show at radio

0:31.4

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0:38.8

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0:45.2

I'm joined today by Wilfred Riley, political science professor at Kentucky State

0:50.6

University and author of the new book,

0:53.1

Lies My Liberal Teacher told me, debunking the false narratives

0:57.4

defining America's school curriculum.

1:00.3

It is a topic, of course course that is ripe with all kinds of very important material.

1:09.0

Thank you for joining us, Wilford. I appreciate your time.

1:12.0

Thank you for having me on the show.

1:14.8

This is a very interesting book, like I said, there's so much here to break down, but

1:20.1

doesn't this really come out of that 1995 book about the lies my teacher told me,

1:26.8

kind of a left-wing look at the things omitted in, you know, in our lessons in school over the years.

1:35.0

Certainly some truth to that, but you have, as you note,

1:40.0

have seen over the last generation plus how much the left has infused itself in the

1:47.7

lying in our curricula.

1:49.7

Yeah, so I mean I think that the short answer is yes, it's to some extent a response to that text

1:56.7

But over the last really 60 years I mean the trend in higher education is cut in the other direction.

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