Adam Harris

In a lot of ways, yes. We're only 60-some-odd years into the idea of a multicultural democracy, right, since the Civil Rights Act. And a lot of people feel that we lost something when we moved into that era. And so effectively, some of this is trying to reclaim that visage of that sort of pastoral past that we lost.

Yeah. So, So Christopher Ruffo is a conservative activist who, around 2020, not long after the murder of George Floyd, started looking into diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. And he started writing a bunch of blog posts and articles that really examined the DEI in several different areas.

Yeah. So, So Christopher Ruffo is a conservative activist who, around 2020, not long after the murder of George Floyd, started looking into diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. And he started writing a bunch of blog posts and articles that really examined the DEI in several different areas.

Yeah. So, So Christopher Ruffo is a conservative activist who, around 2020, not long after the murder of George Floyd, started looking into diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. And he started writing a bunch of blog posts and articles that really examined the DEI in several different areas.

He would pull some of the most jarring examples and sort of use those as a way to indict the entire apparatus that has grown up out of the civil rights movement. But by September of 2020, some of those articles, some of what he said on TV gets to President Trump during the end of his first term.

He would pull some of the most jarring examples and sort of use those as a way to indict the entire apparatus that has grown up out of the civil rights movement. But by September of 2020, some of those articles, some of what he said on TV gets to President Trump during the end of his first term.

He would pull some of the most jarring examples and sort of use those as a way to indict the entire apparatus that has grown up out of the civil rights movement. But by September of 2020, some of those articles, some of what he said on TV gets to President Trump during the end of his first term.

And that really launches this broader interrogation that we've seen since then into diversity principles and sort of these ideas of equity.

And that really launches this broader interrogation that we've seen since then into diversity principles and sort of these ideas of equity.

And that really launches this broader interrogation that we've seen since then into diversity principles and sort of these ideas of equity.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes, there's a grand idea behind them.

Yes, there's a grand idea behind them.

Yes, there's a grand idea behind them.

Yeah, well, around December, actually, there was a piece that came out in the Washington Examiner by a conservative, you know, education scholar, Maxi Eden, who argued that Lyndon McMahon could do a couple of things upon being confirmed as the education secretary in order to overall higher education and to ensure that institutions sort of got into line.

Yeah, well, around December, actually, there was a piece that came out in the Washington Examiner by a conservative, you know, education scholar, Maxi Eden, who argued that Lyndon McMahon could do a couple of things upon being confirmed as the education secretary in order to overall higher education and to ensure that institutions sort of got into line.

Yeah, well, around December, actually, there was a piece that came out in the Washington Examiner by a conservative, you know, education scholar, Maxi Eden, who argued that Lyndon McMahon could do a couple of things upon being confirmed as the education secretary in order to overall higher education and to ensure that institutions sort of got into line.

And one of those things, he argued, was to take a prize scalp. A prize scalp. A prize scalp. And that's a quote unquote. And he said that institution would be Columbia University. that the administration should go after Columbia as hard as it can. If Columbia did not comply, it should remove its Title IV funds.