
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


The national conversation about race is making its way through the US education system. Seemingly overnight, debates about whether to teach children critical race theory have taken hold of state legislatures and school board meetings across the country. But what exactly is critical race theory and why is it so controversial?
Princeton’s Dr. Allen Guelzo joined Dany and Marc to explain critical race theory’s philosophical underpinnings and why it poses a threat to American democracy. Dr. Guelzo also discusses ways to combat its spread throughout American society and the US education system.
Dr. Guelzo is a New York Times best-seller author, American historian and commentator on public issues. He is also Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship and Senior Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University.
Download the transcript here.
By AEI Podcasts4.3
607607 ratings
The national conversation about race is making its way through the US education system. Seemingly overnight, debates about whether to teach children critical race theory have taken hold of state legislatures and school board meetings across the country. But what exactly is critical race theory and why is it so controversial?
Princeton’s Dr. Allen Guelzo joined Dany and Marc to explain critical race theory’s philosophical underpinnings and why it poses a threat to American democracy. Dr. Guelzo also discusses ways to combat its spread throughout American society and the US education system.
Dr. Guelzo is a New York Times best-seller author, American historian and commentator on public issues. He is also Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship and Senior Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University.
Download the transcript here.

2,835 Listeners

210 Listeners

1,839 Listeners

126 Listeners

1,518 Listeners

5,176 Listeners

4,867 Listeners

6,589 Listeners

2,009 Listeners

2,836 Listeners

17 Listeners

41 Listeners

3,336 Listeners

18 Listeners

28 Listeners

710 Listeners

18 Listeners

21 Listeners

626 Listeners

814 Listeners

1,067 Listeners

432 Listeners

37 Listeners

1,071 Listeners