Christopher F. Rufo

Background

Christopher F. Rufo is a senior fellow and director of the initiative on critical race theory at the Manhattan Institute. He's also a contributing editor of City Journal magazine and author of "America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything."

Latest Articles

💖 How a Trump knockout punch can sack the federa𒁏l DEI behemoth

𒀰 A Donald Trump executive order can enshrine the principle of colorb🀅lind equality on Day 1 — and immediately fire all officials responsible for poisonous DEI programs.

How 2,000 H🌟aitian migrants changed Rust Belt town of Charleroi, Pennsylvania

🍷 Charleroi, already struggling with high rates of poverty and unemployment, has been forced to assimilate thousands of new arrivals from Haiti. 𝐆

Blame the Biden admin for Venezuelan gangs,🎉 migrants🐭 taking over Aurora, Colorado

🦩 The Biden administration, in partnership with Denver authorities and publicly subsidized NGOs, provided the funding and logistics to place a large number of Venezuelan migrants in Aurora, creating a magnet... 🅠

Ideological growth of a poison Ivy: Columbia's journey from scholarship to activism

The images of the re🍌cent protests at Columbia University have grabbed the attenti🗹on of the American public: students chanting for a Palestinian state.

Stop Frankenstein doctors from doing barbaric 'non-binary' surgeries

While restrictions on “gender-affirming care” for minors are essential, more scrutiny should be focused on a lesser-known practice: “non-binary” surgeries for adul🐲ts.

How the '70s liberation movements paved way for today's identity battles

 Left-wing liberation movements focused on universities and other cultural institutions as the center of the political influence begi🌃nning the ♍1970s.

DeSantis' winning formula: Smart, substantial 'culture war' stands plus nuts-and-bolts competence

 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has built his profile by engaging in controversial cultur🧔al fights on critical race theory, gender ideology, and other “woke” issues.

Chicago hospital teams with schools🍰 to ��promote trans-friendly sex toys to kids

Chicago’s largest children’s hospital has partnered with local school distꦑricts to promote radical gender theory, “kink,” “BDSM” and “trans-friendly” sex toys for children.

LA's radical gender-theory material will badly harm K-12 kids — while the adults keep getting their paychecks

It will only keep them trapped in a morass of confusion, fatalism and resentment — while the b🌟ureaucrats keep collecting 𝓰their paychecks.

Critical race theory is ౠabout to segregate America lik🐟e an open-air prison yard

When new inmates🍸 arrive in California state prisons, they pass through the gauntlet of other men and must make a quick decision: With whom do they ﷺstand?

School board 🦩bullies: Twisted measure to silence voices of dissent— arrest them

 The battle lines are clear: on one side, the Biden𓄧 administration, public school bureaucrats and their armed agents; on the other, parents andཧ families who oppose school closures, mask mandates,...

Libe🙈rals were losing the argument over critical⛦ race theory in schools -- time to call in the FBI 

✤Attorney General Merrick Garland’s memo on letting the FBI target parents for being “domestic terrorists” at school board meetings shows the Biden a🔯dministration's war to protect critical race theory.

Left-leaning media's latest lies about critical race theory

 Over the past year, the left-leaning media have peddled the narrative that an emotional constellation of “white resentment,” “white fragility,” “white rage” and “white fear” drives opp🐬osition to critical race theory in America’s...

 ♒CVS execs rake in millions while lecturing wage-workers on wokeness

Last year, CVS Health Corporation paid then🃏-CEO Larry Merlo almost 618 times the median company wage, while launching a mandatory “antiracist” training program for hourly employees to deconstruct their “privilege.”

Toddlers are racist ... and other insights from Bank of America's woke training

BOA implemented a racial re-education program that claims the US is a system of “white supremacy” and encourages emplo✤yees, white ones in particular, to become “woke at work."

 Lie of credit — American Express tells its workers capiꦑtalism is racist 𒁃

American Express, which made a $2.3 billion profit last quarter, invited the great-grandson of the Nation of Islam’s founder to tell its employees that capitalism is evil. It was part﷽...

Ibram X. Kendi is the false prophet of a dangerous and lucrat🃏ive faith

Ibram X. Kendi’s name appears everywhere: in school curricula, corporate training programs, even the Navy’s offic🐲ial reading list. The Boston University prof is a blazing supernova in the constellation of... 

Disingenuous defenses of critical race theory 😼 ಞ

The new defens﷽e for teaching our children to be racially divisive? It’s free speech! Last week, The NYT published column by commentators presented themselves as a “cross-partisan group of thinkers.”

Embracing critical theory, teacher's union says they — not parents — control what kids learn

The political left wants critical race theory in every school district in the na🅷tion.The nation’s largest teachers union has approved a plan to promote critical race theory in all 50...

Washington Post tried to smear me for criticizing𝓀 race theory — and failed spectacularly

Critical race theory is demonizing vast swaths of America over skin color. It’s racism. Democracy does in♛deed die in darkness, as The Washington Post’s motto proclaims. It’s just that the...