This week, on the podcast, we welcome activists, journalists, and author Christopher Rufo.

And the ultimate problem of critical race theory is that it's designed to serve the interests

of the critical race theorists, the elite academics, the television commentators, the kind of the

activist class on the left, that harvests in donations and then buys mansions. But it doesn't have

anything to offer working-class people of any racial background, including, and maybe especially

working-class or even lower-class African-Americans. This is Watkins. Welcome with Bridget

Pettasy, I'm Bridget Pettasy, and you are welcome.

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All right, I'm with Chris Rufo, everybody. Welcome to Watkins. Welcome.

It's great to be here. I'm excited to talk to you about your book. It's your first book, correct?

Yep, book number one. Yeah, and tell us the title and just a brief overview of what it's about

for those of my listeners. Absolutely, yeah. The book is America's Cultural Revolution,

How the Radical Left Conquered Everything. It debuted last week as the number one best

seller across all categories on Amazon. Wow. And it, in essence, tells the story of

the left's long march through the institutions. So it begins in the turbulent summer of 1968,

and then culminates in the turbulent summer of 2020, the George Floyd riots. And what it does is

it shows the movement of kind of radical left wing ideas from the fringes and the counterculture

as they slowly take over institution after institution. To the point where in 2020, I think many of

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