After the hosts discuss a controversy involving a less-than-affirming puppet show, Greg Lukianoff joins them to talk about the anti-critical-race-theory laws being proposed all over the country, some of which he says represent the greatest threat to academic freedom he's seen in his 20-year career.

Show notes/Links:

Barnaby Dixon bio: https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Barnabydixon

His YouTube work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZWbpwCbxfY&ab_channel=barnabydixon

Philip the Philosofish interviews Sasha Ayad: https://youtu.be/Uvqg5wBOrqM

More info on Ayad: https://inspiredteentherapy.com/

"Responding to Criticism": https://youtu.be/5yQ8XYvA2Q4

Even very skeptical, supposedly "science-based" sources are succumbing to misinformation and overclaiming on youth gender dysphoria: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/how-science-based-medicine-botched

No, desistance has not been 'debunked' (Jesse's newsletter): https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/how-science-vs-accidentally-invented

13 important points in the campus & K-12 ‘critical race theory’ debate: https://www.thefire.org/13-important-points-in-the-campus-k-12-critical-race-theory-debate/

Salon is crazy: https://www.salon.com/2021/06/23/desantis-signs-bill-requiring-florida-students-professors-to-register-political-views-with-state/

Chris Rufo on The Fifth Column: https://shows.acast.com/wethefifth/episodes/322-w-chris-rufo-banning-critical-race-theory-robin-diangelo

Kmele Foster of The Fifth Column teams up with ideological friends and foes alike to oppose the bills in The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/05/opinion/we-disagree-on-a-lot-of-things-except-the-danger-of-anti-critical-race-theory-laws.html