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

 Columbia prof marches for Gaza while you fundꦛ her p๊seudo-science race study 

American taxpayers are subsidizing a Columbia ✅University professor who marched in pro-Hamas demonstrations on campu꧙s.

New Age 'prophet' Ibram X. Kendi revealed as just another fraud after country emerged from BLM-induced mania

The past decade’s examples, ☂who sold us on critical race theory, transgender medicine and other insanities, are no different.

 🍷 How a Tr💃ump knockout punch can sack the federal DEI behemoth

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

🍸  Howജ 2,000 Haitian 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 ꦓfrom Haiti.

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

The Biden administration, in part⭕nership 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 recent protests at Columbia University have grabbed the attention of the American public: students chanting for a Palestin༒ian state.

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

While restricti🐻ons on “gender-affirming care” for minors are essential, more scrutiny should be focused on a lesser-known pra🤡ctice: “non-binary” surgeries for adults.

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 beginꦉning 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 cultural fights on cri🐷tical race theory, gꦑender ideology, and other “woke” issues.

Chicago hospital teams witꦛh schools to𒆙 promote trans-friendly sex toys to kids

 Chicago’s largest children’s hospital has partnered with𝓡 local school districts 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 i🅺n a morass of confusion, fatalism and resentment — while the bureaucrats keep collecting their p🥃aychecks.

𓂃 Critical race theory is about to segregate America like 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 s𝓀tand?

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

The battle lines are clear: on one side, the Biden administration, public school bureaucrats a♔nd their armed agent൩s; on the other, parents and families who oppose school closures, mask mandates,...

Liberals 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 parent🐻s for being “domestic terrorists” at school board meetings shows the Biden administration'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 opposition to critical race theory i✅n America’s...

CVS execs rake in millions while lecturing wage-workers on woken▨ess🅘

Last year, CVS Health Corporation paid then-CEO Larry Merlo almost 618 times the median company wage, wh🐼ile launching a mandatory “antiracist” training program for hourly employees t𒁃o 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 encourag﷽es employees, white ones in particular, to become “woke at work." 

🍰 Lie of credit — American Express tells its workers capitalism is racist

 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 i💯s evil. It was part...

 Ibram X. Kendi is the false prophet of a dangerous and lucrativ𝐆e faith

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

Disingenuous defenses of critical race theory  💦 ♛

The new defense for teaching our children to be racially divisive? It’s free speech! Last week, The NYT pub꧙lished column ⛎by commentators presented themselves as a “cross-partisan group of thinkers.”