Christopher Rufo

Christopher Rufo is a conservative activist and writer known for leading campaigns against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and critical race theory in American institutions. He is a senior fellow and director of the initiative on critical race theory at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor at City Journal. He is also the author of “America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything.”

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The Managerial Revolution👍 Recommends
…book recommendation on political and managerial structures in modern society
“I would start with Managerial Revolution. Again, because it just it kind of describes it's in the 1940s. It's unbelievable. You read it now and he's describing the world we live in, but he's describing it from from a point of kind of optimism, American optimism. But he already saw some of the problems that were starting to emerge.”
on The Ezra Klein Show
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams👍 Recommends
…book recommendations on political leadership and institutional change
“The second book that I think all conservatives should read and all liberals should read is a biography by Stacey Schiff called The Revolutionary, which is a biography of the American founder Samuel Adams. And Adams is the most political founder. I think he kind of clarifies through example all the questions that we've been talking about, about propaganda, about passion, about institutions, about political change.”
on The Ezra Klein Show
Unmasking the Administrative State👍 Recommends
…book recommendations for understanding philosophical underpinnings of modern political dilemma
“Okay, so we're going to do three books from Rufo's personal conservative canon. The first I would recommend is a book by my mentor, John Marini, Claremont Institute scholar called Unmasking the Administrative State, which I think has helped me more than anything understand the deeper philosophical and political underpinnings of our modern dilemma.”
on The Ezra Klein Show