Jay Caspian Kang talks to the Manhattan Institute's Reihan Salam.
 | By Susannah Meadows Senior Staff Editor, Opinion |
"Black Parents Say Movement to Ban Critical Race Theory Is Ruining Their Children's Education," "Did Critical Race Theory Turn Out Voters?" "Critical Race Theory, Left-Wing Ideas Ruining Medical Field, Critics Argue," "Can We Talk About Critical Race Theory?" |
That is just a sample of headlines about C.R.T. from the last few months. |
Do you ever wonder where all this came from? How, in seemingly no time, we have become a nation obsessed with an obscure academic idea from the '80s that racism is embedded in American institutions? I do, and I wrote that last headline. |
In his newsletter this week, Jay Caspian Kang provides some answers, tracing the main source of our latest culture war to the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank. In his fascinating, in-depth conversation with the organization's president, Reihan Salam, he explores why the group started this fight. |
"Is it just a way to sow racial discord and 'own the libs'?" Jay writes. "Does it come out of a sincere desire to eliminate a type of racialized thinking from public schools? Or is there some larger vision of conservative politics that's at play here?" They tackle all of it, including what the outcome may mean for the future of both the Republican and Democratic parties. |
Here's what we're focusing on today: |
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