We're in this moment in which the culture is on the edge of a precipice and people from all walks of life and different metaphysical views are all seeing part of that picture and seeing where we're going and trying to figure out okay what do we do here we've all

been on this train going 120 miles an hour we see it's about to go off a ravine we're

all getting off on this last train station and trying to figure out how to work together.

In this episode I sit down with Dr. J Richards, a philosopher, professor, and senior research

fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

He is the co-author of Fight the Good Fight,

how an alliance of faith and reason can win the culture war.

To queer something is to destabilize and disenter it.

So the point of queer theory is to destabilize our categories of sexual reality, which include of course male

and female, but they also include adult and child. Those are contested in queer

theory. We dive into the dangers of gender ideology and

comprehensive sex education. This is American thought leaders and I'm Yanya

Kelleck.

Jay Richard such a pleasure to have you on American thought leaders. It's great to be with you. Well, it's high time I think. Yes. And so it's also very fitting that we met at an event that you organized, which was a coalition of folks very basically targeting gender ideology as a huge problem.

And so now these new W-path files have gender ideology as a huge problem.

And so now these new W-path files have come out.

And some of these same people have been involved

in basically explaining what we're seeing in there.

So why don't you tell me what's in there?

Absolutely.

So Debbie Path Files, as we talk,

they've just been released by the organization that Michael Schhelenburger

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