Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Joining me on today's show is Wilford Riley. He's an associate professor of political

science at Kentucky State University, and his writing on history, race relations, criminal

justice, and other matters has appeared in a number of publications, including

City Journal. Among them, Quillette, National

Review, Newsweek, and more beyond that as well. He's the author of several books, including

taboo, 10 facts you can't talk about. And the book we're going to be talking about today,

his brand new one, Lies My Liberal told me, debunking the false narratives,

defining America's school curriculum. It has been published this month. So Wilfred, thank you

very much for joining us on 10 blocks. Yeah, well, thank you. I'm always a city journal fan,

occasional contributors, so glad to be on. So first, let's start off several decades ago, a pretty famous book at the time called Lies,

My Teacher told me, presented a left-leaning narrative of American history.

The author intended the book to counter what he perceived as a sanitized, mythologized history of America

that was being taught in the schools in his view.

So now your book, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me, addresses 10 scholastic falsehoods that the

left has been promoting in your argument.

So I guess my first question is, why, you know, why did you write this book and why did you

write it at this moment in time?

Well, I mean, there's some glib responses I enjoy debating to sell books.

But I mean, in all reality, I wrote this book because I think it's needed at a moment in time where the political and economic power dynamics in the country are really shifting, but a lot of people seem to be unaware of that. And I think I do happen as a political scientist in my day job to be aware of that. So this book was written in response to not just

lies my teacher told me, which is Leoan, if I have the pronunciation there correct, back in

1995, but in response to a whole suite of texts on really the other side of the fence. So I mean,

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