Christopher F. Rufo

Christopher F. Rufo

“The Conservative Mastermind Behind Claudine Gay’s Ouster”

I tell Politico how we ran the campaign to unseat Harvard’s president.

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Christopher F. Rufo
Jan 04, 2024
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The resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay has sent shockwaves through America’s elite institutions. Commentators across the political spectrum, habituated to years of submission to DEI orthodoxy, have been asking: How did it happen?

Yesterday, reporter Ian Ward of
Politico reached out to ask me precisely this question. As one of the journalists a…

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