Most telling, the attempts by the ideology s defenders to redefine critical race theory suggest they know how indefensible it is. Efforts by multiple states to restrain its spread have been falsely characterized by journalists and progressives as attempts to stop children from learning about slavery and segregation. When you have to disguise your own ideology to purge it of its noxious core, you know you re losing.
I learned economics from a Marxist. But the most important thing he taught me was that open inquiry was the antidote to ruinous extremism. It s a lesson we may finally be relearning.
I think this was the guy that I read for the Smith, Hume, and Marx PPE paper (or some such constellation of historical economists). My tutor was great and we did meet back around where Merton, Oriel and Corpus Christi were. I remember him as looking like his photo as well. This was right around 1980. CRT is putting me in touch with my past though probably not in exactly the way intended.
