In this episode, Dr Jordan B Peterson and Christopher Rufo discuss the creative left, the world of documentary filmmaking, how ideology has seeped in and taken hold of academia, and how Rufo among others are taking an active role in fighting back through legislature.
Christopher Rufo is a senior fellow and director of the initiative on critical race theor ... Show More
Aug 16
Why Being Nice Is Destroying Your Family
What does a punk rock concert full of sneering nihilists have to do with the oldest question about how to live? In this lecture, the final numbers of a long tour, Jordan Peterson begins somewhere unexpected: a Ramones show decades ago, where a room full of people who claimed life ... Show More
1h 44m
Aug 2
Why You Can’t Get What You Actually Want
What if the self you keep trying to serve isn't actually you at all? In this lecture, the final stop of a 60 city tour, Jordan Peterson begins with an unlikely admission from the world's most famous atheist and follows it into the two shortest, densest paragraphs in the Bible: th ... Show More
1h 42m
Sep 2023
Fighting For Truth In The Age Of Leftism | Chris Rufo
Christopher Rufo is a writer, filmmaker, and Senior Fellow and Director of the Initiative on Critical Race Theory at the Manhattan Institute. His writings explore many issues such as gender ideology, identity politics, addiction, crime, and the decline of American cities. In this ... Show More
59m 58s
Mar 2024
#2113 - Christopher Rufo
Christopher F. Rufo is a writer, filmmaker, activist, and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He's also a Contributing Editor of "City Journal," a Distinguished Fellow of Hillsdale College, and the founder of American Studio, a nonprofit focused on the American experience.
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2h 27m
Jul 2023
Meet the Man Driving the Right’s Culture War Panic
The Republican Party’s full embrace of the culture war as a political tactic — from drag queen story hour to critical race theory and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives — has been chiefly guided by activist and polemicist Christopher Rufo, author of the new book “Americ ... Show More
45m 30s
Apr 2025
The Conservative Activist Pushing Trump to Attack U.S. Colleges
<p>This week, we interviewed two people with leading roles in the rapidly escalating conflict between the Trump administration and American higher education.</p><p>Today, we speak with Christopher Rufo, who led the conservative critique of, and assault on, critical race theory an ... Show More
43m 49s
Aug 2025
#431 — What Is Happening on College Campuses?
Sam Harris speaks with Michael Roth about the state of higher education in the U.S. They discuss whether concerns about wokeness were overblown, how colleges should handle campus protests, where universities should draw the line on extreme political views, DEI, why Jews should be ... Show More
23m 29s
Sep 2020
2 Liberal Atheists and the Virus of ‘Wokism’ w/ Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay
In this can’t miss episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, Charlie is joined by Dr. Peter Boghossian, a full-time faculty member in the department of philosophy at Portland State University and author of “How to Have Impossible Conversations, along withJames Lindsay, founder and presid ... Show More
1h 28m