On this episode Andrew and Beth interview professor Eric Kaufmann on his new Manhattan Institute report, “School Choice Is Not Enough: The Impact of Critical Social Justice Ideology in American Education.” Eric shares the findings of his comprehensive report and details how critical race theory and radical gender ideology are rampant in American schools, including public, private and religious schools. Eric discusses how this ideology in schools is influencing political beliefs and how it is associated with a fear of speaking one’s mind. Eric also shares his policy recommendations for Republicans in both blue and red states and we discuss whether or not school choice is the solution the problem of social justice indoctrination.

Eric Kaufmann is Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London and an Adjunct Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He is the author of Whiteshift: Immigration, Populism and the Future of White Majorities (Penguin/Abrams, 2018/19.) He has also written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Times of London, Newsweek, National Review, New Statesman, Financial Times and other outlets.

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