Critical Race Theory

VIRTUAL EVENT: Critical Race Theory and Its Grip on America

Critical Race Theory

Critical race theory (CRT) makes race the prism through which its proponents analyze all aspects of American life, categorizing individuals into groups of oppressors and victims. It is a philosophy that is infecting everything from politics and education to the workplace and the military. 

 

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COMMENTARY

Jonathan Butcher
Critical Race Theory and Small-Town America

Jonathan Butcher

May 11, 2022 2 min read

COMMENTARY

Kevin D. Roberts, PhD
The Tide is Turning on Critical Race Theory

Kevin D. Roberts, PhD

Apr 27, 2022 1 min read

COMMENTARY

Jonathan Butcher
A Critical Look at Critical Race Theory in America’s Classrooms

Jonathan Butcher

Apr 21, 2022 4 min read

COMMENTARY

Jonathan Butcher
New Jersey Schools Want To Talk to Kids About Sex—And Keep It a Secret

Jonathan Butcher

Apr 19, 2022 3 min read

REPORT

Protecting Children and Families with Parents’ Bills of Rights

Jonathan Butcher, Lindsey Burke, PhD

Apr 11, 2022 12 min read

COMMENTARY

Jonathan Butcher
What’s Driving the Free-Speech Crisis on College Campuses

Jonathan Butcher

Apr 8, 2022 2 min read

REPORT

ABA’s “Diversity” Agenda Endangers the Integrity of the Legal Profession

Sarah Parshall Perry, Zack Smith

Mar 31, 2022 39 min read

COMMENTARY

Critical Race Theory, Public Schools, and Parental Rights

Melissa Moschella, Ph.D.

Mar 24, 2022 10 min read

COMMENTARY

Why Georgia Schools Must Reject Critical Race Theory

Mike Gonzalez, James Quarles

Mar 14, 2022 2 min read

COMMENTARY

Jonathan Butcher
State Lawmakers Are Combating Racism the Right Way. Here’s What You Need to Know.

Jonathan Butcher

Feb 9, 2022 4 min read

VIDEO

5 Myths of Critical Race Theory (BUSTED)

Scott Zipperle

Feb 3, 2022 4 min watch

COMMENTARY

Jonathan Butcher
Why Parents Need Choices in Education To Protect Their Values

Jonathan Butcher

Jan 31, 2022 3 min read

COMMENTARY

Jonathan Butcher
New Proposals Rejecting CRT See Through Radical Talking Points

Jonathan Butcher

Jan 28, 2022 3 min read

COMMENTARY

Mike Gonzalez
Youngkin Off to Good Start, but Parents Need to Keep Up Counterrevolution

Mike Gonzalez

Jan 20, 2022 4 min read

COMMENTARY

Mike Gonzalez
Zombie Marxism

Mike Gonzalez

Dec 17, 2021 15 min read

ARTICLE

Coalition Calls on States to Increase Transparency, End CRT in Schools

Dec 2, 2021 4 min read

COMMENTARY

Mike Gonzalez
The Five Lies of CRT

Mike Gonzalez

Nov 29, 2021 6 min read

COMMENTARY

Jonathan Butcher
What Is the NSBA, and Why Is It Trying to Shut Down Parents?

Jonathan Butcher

Oct 18, 2021 3 min read

COMMENTARY

Biden’s Justice Department Clueless That Censoring Parents Is Sure to End Badly

Jonathan Butcher, Mike Gonzalez

Oct 12, 2021 3 min read

COMMENTARY

Jonathan Butcher
Arizona State University and Offerings at the Temple of the Woke

Jonathan Butcher

Oct 4, 2021 5 min read

COMMENTARY

Critical Race Theory Will Destroy the Fabric of Our Military

John Venable

Sep 14, 2021 2 min read

COMMENTARY

Jonathan Butcher
Biden and Critical Race Theory—How To Fight Back

Jonathan Butcher

Aug 18, 2021 3 min read

COMMENTARY

Sarah Parshall Perry
Teachers Unions Go to Court To Deter Critical Race Theory Disclosure

Sarah Parshall Perry

Aug 17, 2021 3 min read

REPORT

Jonathan Butcher
Rescuing Math and Science from Critical Race Theory’s Racial Discrimination

Jonathan Butcher

Jul 13, 2021 10 min read

COMMENTARY

Mike Gonzalez
The Great Transformation in Jeopardy?

Mike Gonzalez

Jul 7, 2021 10 min read

HERITAGE EXPLAINS

Critical Race Theory in the Military
How woke policies like CRT would destroy the military.

ARTICLE

Protecting K–12 Students from Discrimination

Jun 18, 2021 3 min read

COMMENTARY

Jonathan Butcher
Teachers at Rebekah Randall’s Son’s School Are Fixated on Race

Jonathan Butcher

Jun 1, 2021 4 min read

COMMENTARY

Mike Gonzalez
Institutionalizing Racial Fanaticism Across American Society

Mike Gonzalez

May 12, 2021 3 min read

HERITAGE EXPLAINS

How to Identify Critical Race Theory
Knowing critical race theory when you see it and fighting it when you can

COMMENTARY

Joe Biden Wants to Take Critical Race Theory to the Next Level

Lindsey Burke, PhD, Inez Feltscher Stepman

May 12, 2021 3 min read

COMMENTARY

Purging Whiteness To Purge Capitalism

Mike Gonzalez, Jonathan Butcher

May 5, 2021 15 min read

VIDEO

Critical Race Theory Push in Schools Is a National Problem

Mike Gonzalez

Apr 30, 2021 4 min watch

COMMENTARY

Jonathan Butcher
Critical Race Theory Drives Students Apart. Idaho Lawmakers Had Enough.

Jonathan Butcher

Apr 30, 2021 4 min read

COMMENTARY

Keep Racist Critical Race Theory Ideology Out of K-12 Classrooms

Jonathan Butcher, Mike Gonzalez

Apr 22, 2021 3 min read

REPORT

Education Officials Must Restore a Sense of National Character in Public Schools

Mike Gonzalez, Jonathan Butcher

Apr 22, 2021 14 min read

VIDEO

The Left Is Implementing Critical Race Theory In Schools

Katharine Cornell Gorka

Apr 13, 2021 7 min watch

VIDEO

Critical Race Theory Is Spreading in Schools

Lindsey Burke, PhD

Apr 10, 2021 3 min watch

REPORT

The Heritage Foundation
The Biden Administration’s Pursuit of Unequal Treatment

The Heritage Foundation

Feb 9, 2021 3 min read

COMMENTARY

No, Teacher-Training Programs Don’t Ignore Issues of Race

Frederick Hess, Lindsey Burke, PhD

Apr 9, 2021 3 min read

REPORT

Does Race Get Short Shrift in Education Research and Teacher Training?

Frederick Hess, Lindsey Burke, PhD

Apr 5, 2021 9 min read

COMMENTARY

Dakota Wood
Identity Politics and Critical Race Theory Have No Place in U.S. Military

Dakota Wood

Mar 29, 2021 4 min read

REPORT

Critical Race Theory Would Not Solve Racial Inequality: It Would Deepen It

Christopher Rufo

Mar 23, 2021 23 min read

REPORT

Seven Steps to Combatting “Critical Theory” in the Classroom

Jonathan Butcher, Lindsey Burke, PhD

Mar 22, 2021 12 min read

COMMENTARY

Critical Race Theory Aims To Upend the Civic Order

Critical Race Theory Aims To Upend the Civic Order

Mar 10, 2021 2 min read

COMMENTARY

Jonathan Butcher
Don’t Let Critical Theory Cancel History

Jonathan Butcher

Feb 3, 2021 4 min read

EVENT

Jan 11
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
VIRTUAL EVENT: Critical Race Theory and Its Grip on America

COMMENTARY

Marxist “Critical Race Theory” Seeps Into U.S. Courts

GianCarlo Canaparo, Hans von Spakovsky

Dec 23, 2020 3 min read

COMMENTARY

Feeling Guilty About Everything? Thank Critical Race Theory

Jonathan Butcher, Mike Gonzalez

Dec 7, 2020 5 min read

REPORT

Critical Race Theory, the New Intolerance, and Its Grip on America

Jonathan Butcher, Mike Gonzalez

Dec 7, 2020 Over an hour read

COMMENTARY

To Tackle Critical Theory in K–12, Start with Colleges of Education

Lindsey Burke, PhD, Mike Gonzalez

Oct 7, 2020 5 min read

COMMENTARY

How Leftists’ Critical Race Theory Poisons Our Discussion of Racism

How Leftists’ Critical Race Theory Poisons Our Discussion of Racism

Jun 29, 2020 6 min read

COMMENTARY

How Critical Race Theory is Dividing America

Michelle Cordero

Oct 26, 2020 11 min read

HERITAGE EXPLAINS

How to Identify Critical Race Theory
Knowing critical race theory when you see it and fighting it when you can

As the tenets of critical race theory become more familiar to the public in everyday life, CRT’s intolerance becomes “normalized,” along with the idea of systemic racism, weakening public and private bonds that create trust and allow for civic engagement. 

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