Chris Rufo is the winner not because he worked to get Gay fired (which he did). No, Chris Rufo wins because he makes his enemies look like fools. Facing off against him, journalists and academics seem to short circuit. They abandon all their stated values. As Rufo put it: “The funniest outcome of the Claudine Gay saga is all of the academics coming out in defense of plagiarism and all of the journalists coming out against journalism.”
