Christopher Rufo

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/14/2023
  

  At Florida's Besieged New College, Apprehension and Resolve

  Students fear disruption of an academic community that many find supportive, inspiring, and open—and gravely misunderstood by the Governor and his allies. 

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• SOURCE: Substack
  1/23/2023
  

  Banished Podcast: Sunshine State's Descent Into Darkness

  by Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

  Two historian podcasters evaluate the effort to politicize the history curriculum in Florida's K-12 schools and public colleges. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  1/11/2023
  

  The Right's Chaos Politics Meet Institutional Inertia in the Fight for Florida's New College

  by Brian Rosenberg

  "The reference to Hillsdale and not to a 'great books' college like St. John’s in Annapolis totally gives away the game: This is not about teaching the Western canon but about scoring political points and creating not a traditional college but a conservative Republican college."

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  1/11/2023
  

  DeSantis's New College Coup Will Fail

  by Adam Laats

  Transforming colleges along ideological lines is much more difficult than amassing political power or appointing allies to governing boards. Conservatives are able to operate successful and ideologically friendly institutions when they accept that they will be occupy a niche, not change the ecosystem. 

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• 1/15/2023
  

  50 Years Ago, "Anti-Woke" Crusaders Came for My Grandfather

  by Max Jacobs

  In 1972, "Search for Freedom" was rejected for adoption in Texas classrooms after conservative activists launched a national media campaign to attack it as unamerican and corrupting. The author's grandfather wrote the book. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10/31/2022
  

  Is Moms For Liberty Out to Protect Kids or Scare Parents?

  Williamson County in suburban Nashville shows how the astroturf Mom's group erupted on the scene to challenge a popular and well-regarded social studies curriculum for elementary schools on the grounds that its civil rights lessons were "divisive." 

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• SOURCE: The Forum
  7/18/2022
  

  Stuck on the Rufo Road

  by Jennifer Berkshire

  As conservative activists mount a multi-front campaign to discredit and defund public education, too many leading Democrats seem unaware that the popularity of public education means they have a winning issue right in front of their faces, says an education historian and policy analyst. 

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  7/11/2021
  

  CRT: How to Manufacture a Moral Panic

  "When an educator exposes the racism that lurks within this nation, they often find themselves at the mercy of an onslaught from the right."