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Why Christopher Rufo Wants Universities to Feel ‘Existential Terror’

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March 7, 2025

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“Putting the universities into contraction, into a recession, into declining budgets,” would discipline progressive educational institutions more effectively than Department of Education bureaucrats ever could, the conservative activist Christopher Rufo argued in a recent interview with Times Opinion columnist Ross Douthat.

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