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Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. My guest today is Christopher Rufo. Christopher is a political activist and filmmaker known for his opposition to

critical race theory, or CRT. He's a senior fellow and director of the initiative on critical

race theory at the Manhattan Institute, and he's the author of a new book called America's Cultural

Revolution, How the Radical Left Conquered Everything. In this episode, we talk about the German philosopher Herbert Marcusa and the role he played

in popularizing critical theory.

We talk about the legacy of the Weather Underground.

We talk about the admiration that left-wing intellectuals in the 20th century had for Mao

and Stalin.

We talk about the relationship between critical theory and Marxism.

We talk about the psychological and emotional appeal of communism.

We talk about the effect of the collapse of the Soviet Union on the Western left.

We disagree somewhat about the legacy of McCarthyism.

We talk about the political leanings of public school teachers today.

We talk about the strengths and weaknesses of classical liberalism as a philosophy.

We talk about the teaching of CRT in public schools and much more.

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