Parents across the country have been storming school board meetings to demand an end to critical race theory in the classroom.

And prominent leftists have responded in one of two ways.

Some of them have defended critical race theory as a good and important academic movement.

And others have denied that critical race theory exists at all. And actually, many

prominent leftists have done both at the same time. Critical race theory doesn't exist, but it's also

terrific and wonderful and very important. Well, here to help us break it down, we have one of the

nation's top experts on critical race theory. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz.

I'm Michael Knowles, and this week I am joined not only by the senator himself, but also by

Christopher Rufo, who is senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute

and who is largely responsible for many people around the country waking up to critical

race theory and the associated leftist ideological movements that are poisoning the minds of

young America. All right, you understand my opinion of CRT, but I want to take a somewhat balanced perspective.

Chris, thank you so much for being here.

It's great to be with you.

So, Senator, you and I were talking not so long ago about what CRT was like back when you were a student in law school,

because it did begin in the law schools,

but it didn't end in the law schools.

Well, that's right.

And Harvard Law School is really where it originated.

And unfortunately, it is metastasized and spread.

And Chris has done a terrific job of chronicling where and when it has spread and how it's

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