Texas Teachers, You Can't Make Children Feel Uncomfortable

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In texas, as has been true in about eight nine other states, enacted last spring several laws that ostensibly had set lines for how public teachers this is now in texas, it's not hired. It's eight o 12 what they can talk about. So you can't make children feel uncomfortable, in this case, say, white children. Similarly, you have arians who are very worried because lists have been put out on books. I mean, everything from race to th holocost whatever. And people are just very, very worried. It's a bad place for free inquiry right now.

Michael Powell is a reporter for The New York Times, covering issues including free speech, education and identity politics. His reporting takes him from the campuses of elite universities and private schools to the halls of the ACLU.

In this week’s conversation, Michael Powell and Yascha Mounk discuss whether the left has cooled on free speech, what’s lost in the national discussion about critical race theory, and how establishment institutions across the United States are being transformed.

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