Christopher F. Rufo

Christopher F. Rufo

The Institutional Hostage Crisis

America's leaders have ceded their moral authority to the mob.

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Christopher F. Rufo
Jan 23, 2023
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American institutions are in the midst of a hostage crisis. But the new hostage-takers don’t use tape, wire, or cuffs. Instead, they wield the even more powerful restraints of guilt, shame, and identity, which have allowed a small minority of left-wing activists to establish their ideology—notably, critical race theory—at the highest levels of instituti…

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