Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago

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Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, international bestselling author and winner of the National Book Award, joins us to discuss how the “great replacement theory” — the baseless concept that Black and Brown communities will “replace” white populations — has ushered us into an antidemocratic age in the name of preventing demographic change. In his newest work Chain of Ideas, Dr. Kendi offers us an unsettling yet indispensable global history of how we landed in this authoritarian era, while simultaneously giving us hope for how we can free ourselves from it.

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