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In this conversation based on his new book, America\\u2019s Cultural Revolution, Christopher Rufo exposes the inner history of the intellectuals and militants who slowly and methodically captured America\\u2019s institutions. With profiles of Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis, Paulo Freire, and Derrick Bell, Rufo shows how activists have profoundly influenced American culture with an insidious mix of Marxism and racialist ideology.

Through deep historical research, Rufo shows how the ideas first formulated in the pamphlets of the Weather Underground, Black Panther Party, and Black Liberation Army have been sanitized and adopted as the official ideology of America\\u2019s prestige institutions, from the Ivy League universities to the boardrooms of Walmart, Disney, and Bank of America.

Shermer and Rufo discuss: race as America\\u2019s original sin \\u2022 civil rights movement then and now \\u2022 liberalism vs. illiberalism \\u2022 equality vs. equity \\u2022 overt racism vs. systemic racism \\u2022 intellectual origins of the cultural revolution: Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis, Paulo Freire, Derrick Bell, Eldridge Cleaver, Huey Newton \\u2022 Black Lives Matter origins in the Black Liberation Army and the Black Panthers \\u2022 critical race theory (CRT) \\u2022 diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), and more\\u2026

Christopher Rufo is a writer, filmmaker, and activist. He has directed four documentaries for PBS, including America Lost, which tells the story of three forgotten American cities. He is a senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of the public policy magazine City Journal. His reporting and activism have inspired a presidential order, a national grassroots movement, and legislation in 22 states. Christopher holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a Master\\u2019s of Liberal Arts from Harvard University.