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Counsel of the Woke

_{Public-health experts have subordinated science to progressive politics.}_{Christopher Rufo
June 19, 2020}

America has reached an epistemological breaking point.

The State of CHAZ

_{Seattle’s autonomous zone has become a laboratory experiment in social justice as governance.}_{Christopher Rufo
June 16, 2020}

Seattle’s autonomous zone has become a laboratory experiment in social justice as governance.

Anarchy in Seattle

_{Antifa-affiliated activists seize control of a city neighborhood and declare an “autonomous zone.”}_{Christopher Rufo
June 11, 2020}

Seattle’s hard-Left secessionist movement has claimed its first territory: six blocks in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.

Wuhan’s Other Epidemic

_{Fueling America’s deadly fentanyl epidemic.}_{Christopher Rufo
May 13, 2020}

Most know that the Chinese city is the source of the coronavirus — but not that it also fuels America’s deadly fentanyl epidemic.

Economics in the Age of Trump

_{Policy maverick Oren Cass challenges the orthodoxy of “growth for growth’s sake.”}_{Christopher Rufo
May 6, 2020}

Policy maverick Oren Cass challenges the orthodoxy of “growth for growth’s sake.”

To Hell with Main Street?

_{It’s time to reassert the authority of we the people.}_{Christopher Rufo
April 27, 2020}

In times of trouble, Americans rally around a common cause. After Pearl Harbor, we liberated much of the world; during the Cold War, we sent a man to the moon. There was a shared sensibility that Americans were unified in pursuit of the highest ideals. But after some shocks, this sense of unity proves short-lived — and shortsighted.

Chaos by the Bay

_{San Francisco responds to the coronavirus with an experiment in lawlessness.}_{Christopher Rufo
April 14, 2020}

An odd pattern has emerged in San Francisco as the city responds to the Covid-19 pandemic. The world of the well-off has become tightly restricted by public quarantine orders, and the world of the poor increasingly resembles that of Mad Max — lawless, crime-ridden, and devoid of functioning authority.

A Rorschach Epidemic

_{Covid-19 reveals the immense variety of our own preoccupations.}_{Christopher Rufo
April 1, 2020}

The coronavirus has swallowed up everything. Its microscopic image — a grey mothball with small red crowns emanating from its core — is found in every newspaper, website, and television program around the world. Though the virus remains mysterious, it has revealed much about us.

Growth Without Virtue

_{The coronavirus reveals an economy that has lost its moral foundations.}_{Christopher Rufo
March 26, 2020}

The coronavirus reveals an economy that has lost its moral foundations.

The New Favelas

_{A West Coast experiment with sanctioned homeless encampments has proved disastrous—and Covid-19 might make it even worse.}_{Christopher Rufo
March 26, 2020}

A West Coast experiment with sanctioned homeless encampments has proved disastrous—and Covid-19 might make it even worse.