Bryan Caplan Interviews Chris Rufo

Bryan Caplan interviews Chris Rufo on his best-selling *America's Cultural Revolution*. In this wide-ranging interview, Rufo tackles some tough questions, including: How bad were the founders of critical theory, really? How fake is Continental philosophy? What would Rufo had done if he'd had Freire's job in Guinea-Bissau? Are fanatics evil? And, does he really hate libertarians? And many more.

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Great interview Bryan!

[@ericvincentofinowicz5610]

Very cool!

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Nice. At 71 it was well worth a quantum of my rapidly decreasing store.

[@maggietinsley2516]

Rufo is my hero.

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@ 50:00 When he says the founders of CRT, who in particular does he mean? Is there a high council of CRT legal scholars or something? Or was it just one or a couple of scholars who just said that they should do that? Seems kind of tenuous to say that a whole legal tradition can just be ordered around like that by what is likely a very small amount of people within the tradition.

[@soulfuzz368]

I did a quick search and this answer doesn’t seem to be disputed to a great deal. The same handful of names keep coming up. Give it a try

[@xwarrior760]

he get a little self-important by the end, but it's clear Caplan likes him a great deal

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Time stamps please !

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Be the change you want to see in the world

[@darenf973]

This interview could have been good, with solid intellectual thought, except that the host keeps interrupting and talking over the guest, so that I can't understand what either of them are saying at times. Shame.

[@apertureonline9566]

Should we be fighting these countries to "liberate," them? I feel that's different.

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I want you to watch Zeitgeist Bryan, and tell me that you think the Federal Reserve prevents economic disaster. All I know is the system I was born into, no clue what the gold standard is like

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Alcohol is freedom from social and emotional pressure. They limit that too..

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Btw, I also want to talk about what Sam Harris talks about. He says free will doesn't exist, I'd say nothing is free, even will. In physics we calculate the differences to Gauge where more opportunity or randomness is. Idk if it's the best word, nothing is free but I'd agree with you. I wouldn't argue about taxonomy of lung fish versus a breed of cat, because some misnomer became recognized. They're explaining something that's how it comes to market idk. What's a priority? My life is mine idk.

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I don't understand why theft shouldn't be accounted for as debt. Counterfeit and the like, they're all debtors to me. We should be able to guarantee work, I forget if you're against tenure and for what reasons. I mean we can work put a default in all cases I presume, that should be allowed. The SEC likes to say you can't guarantee profits, yet nobody is doing that and in many ways I feel like they're idk making jokes about it. It's confusing to explain.

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Caging debtors will help the default go through I guess, where they print money and people accept things like a love one died. We try as humans to comfort each other, I'm a big alcohol supporter I never understood it.

[@amatingmind7258]

Race and culture can never entirely be dismissed, despite Caplan's fantasizing.

[@michaelhutchings6602]

Is it your view that Europe has a monolithic culture?