CHRISTOPHER RUFO: I exposed fake news about Sydney Sweeney. Then they deleted the proof

Media firestorm erupts over New Yorker writer's racist social media history, highlighting contradictions in magazine's diversity policies and antiracism commitments.

Christopher F. Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. He is the author of "America's Cultural Revolution."  Sign up for his Substack here.

This is not the New Yorker of the past; it is something different. What is it, exactly? Beginning a decade ago, the New Yorker, like many of its peers, jumped on the "diversity and inclusion" bandwagon and declared itself an "anti-racist" institution. The magazine, owned by Condé Nast, set explicit racial quotas in hiring and pledged to "talk about racism" at every opportunity.