From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free Expression with Jerry Baker.

Hello and welcome to Free Expression with me, Jerry Baker from the Wall Street Journal editorial page.

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This week, we'll take a look at the ongoing American

cultural revolution with one of its most powerful critics. Now, it's not an exaggeration

to say that for the last decade or so, the United States and some other Western countries

have been in the steadily tightening grip of a rising and revolutionary ideology.

Call it what you will, progressive, woke, postmodern, successor ideology.

But it is without doubt upending and indeed dismantling the values and principles on

upon which this country was founded. At its core is the idea that American civilization,

as we've known it, is fundamentally illegitimate, the product of race, gender and sexuality-based

oppression by white men, principally,

that shaped all aspects of the nation's culture, economy and politics. It calls for a total

overhaul of American institutions and society to ensure so-called equity of outcomes. As I wrote

this week in my journal column, this ideology disowns America's genius, denounces its success, disdains

merit, elevates victimhood, embraces societal self-loathing, and enforces it all in a web of

exclusionary and authoritarian rules large and small. So how did we succumb to this revolution?

How much further can it go and what could be done to resist it?

Well, to talk about this, I'm delighted to be joined him this week by one of the most forceful critics of this rising ideology, Heather MacDonald.

Heather's a leading conservative commentator, among the most thoughtful analysts of the various pathologies of modern American life.

She's developed a particular expertise in crime and urban affairs, but she writes

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