Throughout the 2010s and culminating in 2020, conservatives rightly objected to the left's increasingly infantile ideas about race and sex. No, not every interaction can or should be viewed through the lens of racial oppression. No, men aren't and can't become women. No, looting and riots are not racial justice. And no, Pride Month should have no place in the nation's grade school classrooms.

The through line: Progress is not always good. Sometimes conventional wisdom is plenty wise.

But today, increasingly mainstream voices on the right are overplaying this hand in ways that are every bit as untrue and immoral as anything the left has alleged. Take podcaster Matt Walsh, whose documentaries "What Is a Woman?" (2022) and "Am I Racist?" (2024) skewered the left's zeitgeist on gender ideology and racial grievance.

In his recent “Real History” series, Walsh leads the right down a dangerous and false path: denigrating and belittling the 1960s Civil Rights Vovement. His films collapse the 1960s' push for racial integration into the 2010s' hegemony of "antiracism," drawing no distinction between the truths of the former and the lies of the latter.

Walsh tells his audience that everything you've been taught about the Civil Rights Movement is a lie. He claims that the movement was not peaceful, and that its legal challenges to........

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