Christopher F. Rufo

Jan 31 2025 28 ep. 22 mins 69

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Leading the fight against the left-wing ideological regime.

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Trump’s Extraordinary Opening Moves

Jan 31 2025 21 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit christopherrufo.comWe’re back this week with the writer and publisher Lomez, who will help us sort through President Trump’s blizzard of executive orders. We also discuss the controversial New York Magazine coverage of the Right’s Inauguration celebrations and a strange cult of transgender computer engineers who ar

Post-Progressivism

Jan 24 2025 19 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit christopherrufo.comChristopher Rufo: Eric Kaufmann and I have been traveling almost on parallel tracks. We had a book about the origins of woke ideology—mine is published. We work on some of the policy and university reform, me in the United States, Eric in the U.K. I thought this was a great opportunity to sit down wi

Is Gen Z Doomed?

Jan 17 2025 25 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit christopherrufo.comThis week, I started a firestorm on social media with a very innocent post about the unemployment rates and the prevailing wage at companies like Panda Express, Chipotle, and UPS. It turned into a wide-ranging debate about the general prospects for Gen Z, or the Zoomer generation, and seemingly intract

Elon Musk and Digital Populism

Jan 10 2025 16 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit christopherrufo.comElon Musk has been one of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs. And over the past year, he’s become something else: one of the most influential political figures. In this week’s episode, I will be talking about Elon’s increasing political influence and, in particular, how he uses the social media

Drones Descend on New Jersey

Dec 20 2024 16 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit christopherrufo.comWe’re entering a new phase of cultural change: 2024 is almost gone, the Biden-Harris Administration is on its way out, and, as I argued last week, the BLM era is over.This week, I’m speaking with Jonathan Keeperman, the writer and publisher who goes by the pen name Lomez. We discuss the mysterious

Luigi Mangione and Left-Wing Nihilism

Dec 13 2024 21 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit christopherrufo.comLast week, a masked man assassinated the CEO of UnitedHealthcare on the streets of Manhattan. Now, authorities have alleged that the assassin was Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate who was caught this week in possession of the murder weapon and a short manifesto.We’ll trace the path of

The Televisual President

Dec 06 2024 25 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit christopherrufo.comPresident Donald Trump was, in theory, a real estate developer. But in practice, he is a television star. “The Donald” generated most of his wealth through publicity, licensing, media, and, later in life, reality TV. Likewise, he rose to the presidency by bypassing the traditional party apparatus a

Reflections at Midlife

Nov 29 2024 8 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit christopherrufo.comThe holiday season has begun. I hope that all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. For me, this season is a time to set aside politics for a moment and appreciate all that has happened in the past year. It is a time to retreat into the cocoon of one’s family and slow down.This is a particularly meani

Shutting Down the Department of Education

Nov 22 2024 11 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit christopherrufo.comPresident Trump has long had his eye on abolishing the Department of Education. During the presidential campaign, he repeatedly promised to “eliminate” the department and to “drain the government education swamp.”But Republicans have long made this promise, since the department was first establ

A Repudiation of Woke

Nov 15 2024 11 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit christopherrufo.comAfter every election, the losing faction conducts a post-mortem, or an examination, into the cause of death. This year, with Trump’s decisive victory, this necessity is even more urgent than ever. Democrats will inevitably discover a discomfiting truth: voters repudiated woke ideology, which had beco