Mac Stipanovich: Hard truths about critical race theory Gov. Ron DeSantis‘ insistence that the state Board of Education (BOE) adopt a rule prohibiting the teaching of critical race theory (CRT) and the content of The New York Times’ 1619 Project in Florida’s K-12 public schools — where they are not and never have been taught — is totally consistent with his now fully matured governing style of ostentatiously solving nonexistent problems dear to the hearts of right-wing populists whose primary psychic sustenance is paranoiac outrage. He is, however, right in principle about the impropriety of teaching CRT and the 1619 Project to children, as much as it pains me to say so.