Since October seventh, 2023, we’ve seen that concepts have penalties in the true world. Phillip Magness is an financial historian who specializes within the financial dimensions of slavery and racial discrimination, the historical past of taxation, and measurements of financial inequality over time. He additionally maintains an energetic analysis curiosity in larger schooling coverage and the historical past of financial thought.
He joins Kate Wand on Liberty Curious to debate his latest work on Vital Race Concept (CRT) and its proliferation in academia and the mainstream, and its connection to the far-left’s response to Hamas’ bloodbath of Israeli residents. Phil Magness is Senior Analysis College and F.A. Hayek Chair in Economics and Financial Historical past on the American Institute for Financial Analysis.
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Phil’s Article on Vital Race Concept within the Information
Use these timestamps to navigate the interview content material:
0:00 – Intro
1:35 – CRT in a nutshell
3:05 – CRT teachers’ reactions to Oct 7
10:24 – Media spin
13:08 – Who’s colonizing who?
17:07 – What’s decolonization?
19:15 – The hazards of CRT in the true world
20:39 – The proliferation of CRT in academia
26:46 – Why are these concepts so seductive?
30:15 – Guarantees
33:07 – Silver linings?
37:20 – Final Ideas
Phillip W. Magness
Phillip W. Magness is Senior Analysis College and F.A. Hayek Chair in Economics and Financial Historical past on the American Institute for Financial Analysis. He’s additionally a Analysis Fellow on the Impartial Institute. He holds a PhD and MPP from George Mason College’s Faculty of Public Coverage, and a BA from the College of St. Thomas (Houston). Previous to becoming a member of AIER, Dr. Magness spent over a decade educating public coverage, economics, and worldwide commerce at establishments together with American College, George Mason College, and Berry School. Magness’s work encompasses the financial historical past of the US and Atlantic world, with specializations within the financial dimensions of slavery and racial discrimination, the historical past of taxation, and measurements of financial inequality over time. He additionally maintains an energetic analysis curiosity in larger schooling coverage and the historical past of financial thought. His work has appeared in scholarly shops together with the Journal of Political Economic system, the Financial Journal, Financial Inquiry, and the Journal of Enterprise Ethics. Along with his scholarship, Magness’s standard writings have appeared in quite a few venues together with the Wall Road Journal, the New York Instances, Newsweek, Politico, Motive, Nationwide Evaluation, and the Chronicle of Increased Schooling.
Kate Wand
Kate Wand is a content material creator. Her focus is social commentary and filmmaking. She is the host of AIER’s Liberty Curious podcast.
You may comply with her on Twitter @katewand.
