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Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.

I'm Northern Kentucky University political scientist Michael Baranowski.

My guest today is Eric Hines, a professor of law and

humanities at Queen Mary University of London. He's the author of multiple books, the most recent being

Coming Clean, The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left, which we'll be talking about today.

Eric Hines, welcome to the show. Hi, Michael. It's very good to be with you.

So I wanted to start with what I feel like is a pretty important term.

As a social scientist, I like to start with defining my terms.

So critical theory, that's a term that I think has taken on a lot of different meanings in recent times. So what's your kind of

working definition of it? Well, actually, I think it's always had lots of different meanings.

For at least certainly for decades, for the better part of a century, there have been different

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