It is filled and overflowing with critical race theory.

That among the books that are either assigned or recommended, they include critical race theory and introduction,

the end of policing and advocacy for abolishing police.

They include a book called Anti-Racist Baby.

They recommend babies confess when being racist.

Welcome to Kurt Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I'm the editor in chief of Current Affairs Magazine. My guest today is Professor Alex Vitale. He is professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of City of Disorder, How the Quality of Life

Campaign transformed New York Politics, is also the author of the book, The End of Policing. He is one of

the nation's foremost experts on policing and criminal punishment, having written and on and studied the topic for 30 years

and having written about it for The New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian Nation, and

elsewhere.

And I should also say that his book has, his book, The End of Policing has most recently been

endorsed by the legendary Senator Ted Cruz.

A counter endorsement, a counter endorsement.

Yes, one of those wonderful things, the anti-endorsement.

So, Professor Vitale, thank you so much for joining us here on current affairs.

My pleasure, Nathan.

So, yes, Ted Cruz held up the end of policing as, I believe it was one of, was it one of

his examples of the pernicious critical race theory that is infecting our schools?

Exactly, exactly.

Trying to use it as a bludgeon against the Supreme Court nominee at the time.

Well, there's a wonderful photo of him waving the book, the end of policing in the air, which I'm sure did wonders for sales.

I'm sure it did and totally caught me by surprise, but more importantly, you know, gave me a chance to push back against the kind of really horrible framing of the issue of race that has become dominant within the Republican Party.

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