A common critique of CRT bans is that they are illiberal. But what if banning CRT could actually strengthen liberalism? >"As bills banning critical race theory swept through red state legislatures this summer, a common critique of the laws emerged: CRT bans may be legal, the argument went, but they aren’t liberal. Critics across the political spectrum said that the bills would stifle speech, censor American history, and erode the country’s culture of classical, small-L liberalism, understood as a commitment to the free exchange of ideas."