Welcome to episode.

Welcome to episode 63 of the Charles C.W. Cook podcast. I am elated to report that since I last spoke to you, this podcast has been blessed with another review from our old friend Boiling Rug.

He's back.

The Rugster.

He's with us once again.

Tuning in every week, the better to tell me how much he loathes the show.

And to show me how poor his listening comprehension really is.

I wanted to accompany this wonderful news with an excerpt from Handel's Messiah, but I don't have

one that's out of copyright, so you'll just have to imagine it, perhaps sung to the words, boiling rug.

My guest today is Wilfred Riley. He's an associate professor of political science at Kentucky State.

He's a frequent contributor to National Review, and he's the author of a new book titled Lies, My Liberal

Teacher Told Me. Wilfred Riley, welcome to the Charles C.W. Cook podcast. Great to be here.

All right, so you've just written a book. I believe it is out today, Wednesday, June 12th. And the title of the book

is Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me. Let's start right from the beginning. Who in the context of this book is your liberal teacher? Who is telling these

lies? Who told you these lies? Who do we need to stop telling these lies? Well, I think that

your liberal teacher is a somewhat stereotyped figure that's very common in secondary and post-secondary education.

I'm actually responding to an archetype that's been drawn up by about 12, I'd say, previous authors.

So there's actually a very famous book called Lies My Teacher Told Me, came out in about 1995, that

argues that the American curriculum is full of, I think the term that was used as historical

jingoism that's designed to make the West seem better than it was. And this is one of a couple of books along these lines at the least.

I mean, so, you know, moving on from that, you have that old Marxist Howard Zins, a people's history of the USA.

You have a bury my heart at Wounded Knee, a Native American history of the United States.

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