Feser’s short book contains several excellent chapters that define, dissect, and ultimately demolish CRT.Not for nothing does writer Ryan T. Anderson call it “the best book I’ve read on the topic.”…
I presume none of Feser’s CRT sparring partners will actually read this book – they have proved themselves so impervious to even the most charitable and tempered criticism that they seem a lost cause…
Perhaps, then, the best target audience for Feser’s pocket-size refutation of CRT are those who thought embracing it would place them in the “good guys” camp, but have begun to realize they were suckered them into a spiral of endless self-abasement. There is no forgiveness or reconciliation in the anti-racist paradigm. That would mean equity had been realized – an end-state anti-racists will never allow, because it would eliminate their (very lucrative) raison d’être.
End quote. The Interimdescribes the book as “a brief but timely critique of Critical Race Theory that has taken hold of academia and is at the heart of the woke worldview.” At The University Bookman, William Rooney says that“Feser shows that the Church has stood against racism from her inception to date,” and:
That understanding of the human person informed the Church’s condemnation of chattel slavery that arose with the discovery of the New World. Feser cites an array of papal writings… that rejected slavery.
Moreover, writes Rooney, “Feser identifies a number of logical fallacies in the work of CRT authors” and:
In Feser’s analysis, Marxism, postmodernism, liberation theology, and CRT pivot on conflict, power, and domination among classes or racial groups. The individual is marginalized, reconciliation is not possible, and division is necessary for victory. The Catholic paradigm, in contrast, sees each human person as created in the image and likeness of God, as equally, individually, and uniquely sacred, and as called to love God and others with full mind and body through spiritual and corporal works of mercy.
End quote. Recently I was interviewed about the book by Fr. Rob Jack on the radio program Driving Home the Faith. Earlier interviews about the book can be found here.