Christopher F. Rufo

The campaign against sexual “normativity” is a revolt against reality—and must be resisted.

There has been a debate about the meaning of the word “woke.” Progressives have long insisted that conservatives cannot define the term, but the Left’s most virulent racialists, such as the commentator Touré and Washington Post columnist Damon Young, are now arguing that “woke” and other commonly-used words are a secret code for the “n-word.” This is absurd—but also dangerous, as it’s the latest gambit in the Left’s long-running campaign to suppress all criticism of its racial ideology. Sign up for my free Substack at https://rufo.substack.com. This video is sponsored by Manhattan Institute.

America is in a state of revolution. It’s not the kind of revolution with competing armies or a coup d’état. It’s an invisible revolution along the axes of race, gender, and identity that is shaking the foundations of our country. I’ll show you exactly how we got here and what we can do to push back.

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America is in a state of chaos. Our institutions have been captured by radical ideologies and our culture is being torn apart along the axes of race, gender, and identity. In my new show, I’ll be taking a deep look at America’s Cultural Revolution—from theory to praxis to ideology to power. And most importantly, I’ll be outlining a strategic vision for fighting back.

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The writer Curtis Yarvin recently posted a criticism of the conservative takeover of New College of Florida, where I serve on the board of trustees.

Yarvin, who has built a cult following on the “neoreactionary” Right and the “post-Marxist” Left, is best known for advancing the thesis that the progressive-managerial state, which he calls the Cathedral, is so powerful, that any action to challenge it will end up reinforcing its power. The better solution, Yarvin counsels, is to adopt the posture of a prey animal, find satisfaction through aesthetics, and wait for the American Caesar.

I disagree. Yarvin’s philosophy is an expression of self-fulfilling pessimism. To a certain extent, the conservative takeover of New College has already been successful. We immediately fired the former president, abolished the DEI bureaucracy, banned coercive and discriminatory “diversity” programming, and brought in former education commissioner Richard Corcoran—a man of great tenacity and courage—to lead the turnaround effort.

Furthermore, our initial campaign at New College has already had a ripple effect: multiple states, including Florida, have introduced legislation to abolish DEI bureaucracies at all public universities, and the higher education establishment has expressed fear that a conservative counter-revolution has begun. At a minimum, we have proven that the political commissars are not inevitable, not invincible, and not untouchable.

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