The Macdonald-Laurier Institute was pleased to host esteemed author, thought-leader, filmmaker, and policy activist Chris Rufo in Vancouver for an armchair discussion with MLI Senior Fellow Eric Kaufmann on how to foster a counter-culture to woke extremism.
Chris shared his insights on a range of public policy and cultural issues. Topics of discussion included:
- The importance of the meaning-making aspects of society, like arts and culture, in shaping political discourse;
- The role of mass communication in gaining cultural and institutional influence;
- How elite institutions and networks have been captured by a cultural marxist philosophy, and how it can be reversed;
- That cultural shifts can occur by changing the beliefs of leading elites and institutions;
- How critical race theory, DEI, and gender ideology in k-12 schools and universities were overturned in countless American states.
Chris concluded with a call to Canadians to recognize that we can’t be neutral about our values, and that we ought to promote them through our universities and the political process.
Our thanks to Chris Rufo, Eric Kauffman and to all who attended!
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