From CRT to book bans: What's next?

Andria Derio sits in the gallery before the Placentia Yorba Linda School Board discusses a proposed resolution to ban teaching critical race theory in schools. She is opposed to teaching CRT in school, and wears a sign stating she will remove her children from the district should it not pass. Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute.

The moral panic currently sweeping America about critical race theory (CRT) has been covered ad nauseam by the press and commentators across the political spectrum. That's what typically happens with moral panics (more on that in a moment).