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Chris Rufo's Quest to Abolish DEI

The Daily Signal

The Daily Signal

Government, Daily News, News, Politics

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Chris Rufo was in Washington, D.C., last week to accept The Heritage Foundation’s prestigious Salvatori Prize and visited The Daily Signal to share his thoughts on a range of topics. Over the next two days, we will feature his interview on this show. On part one today, we cover Rufo’s recent reporting on NPR and the plagiarism plague at America’s leading universities. He also shares an update about his campaign to abolish DEI—the controversial idea of diversity, equity, and inclusion that has infested American businesses, colleges, and even our government. And you won’t want to miss Rufo’s advice for how high school students should approach college and what parents need to think about sending their kids to public school. We’ll be back with more from Rufo tomorrow on his award-winning book, “America’s Cultural Revolution,” and what he has planned next. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

When we broke the story that President of Harvard was a plagiarist, she had plagiarized a large number of passages in her doctoral thesis, and she was the president of the most prestigious university in the world.

0:12.0

That's untenable.

0:13.6

And of course, as we started to look elsewhere, we're finding plagiarism everywhere.

0:19.8

This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Tuesday, May 28th.

0:25.0

I'm your host, Rob Louie.

0:28.0

And that was the voice of Chris Rufo, the popular writer, filmmaker, and activist.

0:33.0

Ruffo was in Washington, D.C. last week to accept the Heritage Foundation's prestigious

0:37.9

Salvatore Prize and visited the Daily Signal to share his thoughts on a range of topics.

0:43.0

Over the next two days we will feature his interview on this show.

0:47.0

On Part 1 today, we cover Rufo's recent reporting on NPR and the Plagurism plague at America's leading universities.

0:54.0

He also shares an update about his campaign to end DEI,

0:58.0

the controversial idea of diversity, equity, and inclusion

1:02.0

that has infested American businesses, colleges, and even our government.

1:06.8

And you won't want to miss Rufo's advice for how high school students should approach college and

1:11.0

what parents need to think about sending their kids to public schools.

1:15.1

We'll be back with more from Rufo tomorrow on his award-winning book, America's Cultural Revolution,

1:20.0

and what he has planned next.

1:22.3

But before we get to our interview,

1:23.6

I'd like to first tell you about a new book

1:25.3

from my daily signal colleague, Mary Margaret O'Lahan,

1:28.2

our senior reporter covering culture and politics.

1:31.2

D-Tran's true stories of escaping the gender ideology cult, is out today.

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