In How the Regime Rules, New York Times bestselling author Christopher Rufo delivers a bold, unflinching examination of how Americaâs founding spirit was transformedâand, in his telling, betrayedâby the rise of modern bureaucratic power.
Christopher Rufo rose to prominence exposing the influence of Critical Race Theory and the corruption of DEI in Americaâs institutions. Now, in How the Regime Rules, he unveils the operations of âThe Regimeââan unofficial network of elite institutions that shapes opinion, allocates power, and quietly pulls the nation away from its founding ideals.
For decades, politicians sold the expansion of Big Government, Big Business, and Big Academia as the natural evolution of democracy. Rufo dismantles this illusion, revealing how bureaucrats, corporate managers, and academic ideologues wield immense, unaccountable powerâfar removed from the citizens they claim to serve. The faith in technocratic expertise has hardened into an ideology of control, eroding the independence of the American spirit. If left unchecked, he warns, this trajectory will hollow out the republic itself.
Tracing the shift from FDRâs New Deal to LBJâs Great Society, Rufo shows how the state extended its grasp from the economic to the cultural realm. The New Leftâs âlong march through the institutionsâ became a stealth revolution, embedding new orthodoxies in media, universities, and government alike. It was not a coup of armies, but of meaningsâcontrol over the political âsoftwareâ that governs how citizens think and speak.
Rufoâs warning is clear: the emerging regime keeps the language of democracy while draining it of substance. True change, he argues, must be driven by the people
In How the Regime Rules, New York Times bestselling author Christopher Rufo delivers a bold, unflinching examination of how Americaâs founding spirit was transformedâand, in his telling, betrayedâby the rise of modern bureaucratic power.
Christopher Rufo rose to prominence exposing the influence of Critical Race Theory and the corruption of DEI in Americaâs institutions. Now, in How the Regime Rules, he unveils the operations of âThe Regimeââan unofficial network of elite institutions that shapes opinion, allocates power, and quietly pulls the nation away from its founding ideals.
For decades, politicians sold the expansion of Big Government, Big Business, and Big Academia as the natural evolution of democracy. Rufo dismantles this illusion, revealing how bureaucrats, corporate managers, and academic ideologues wield immense, unaccountable powerâfar removed from the citizens they claim to serve. The faith in technocratic expertise has hardened into an ideology of control, eroding the independence of the American spirit. If left unchecked, he warns, this trajectory will hollow out the republic itself.
Tracing the shift from FDRâs New Deal to LBJâs Great Society, Rufo shows how the state extended its grasp from the economic to the cultural realm. The New Leftâs âlong march through the institutionsâ became a stealth revolution, embedding new orthodoxies in media, universities, and government alike. It was not a coup of armies, but of meaningsâcontrol over the political âsoftwareâ that governs how citizens think and speak.
Rufoâs warning is clear: the emerging regime keeps the language of democracy while draining it of substance. True change, he argues, must be driven by the people