Eric Kaufmann
Professor of Politics, Birkbeck University of London. Political and religious demography #ethnicity #nationalism. From Vancouver BC. (Ice) hockey player.Dad
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Trump to propose immigration deal to end shutdown
His remarks Saturday will mark an attempt to reopen negotiations to end the 29-day impasse.
Eric Kaufmann
Trump to propose immigration deal to end shutdown
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'This is not a fluke': how one state school got 41 Oxbridge offers
Brampton Manor in east London credits its success to students’ hard work and ambition and highly qualified staff
Views of racism as a major problem increase sharply, especially among Democrats
The share of Americans who say racism is a “big problem” in society increased 8 percentage points in the past two years – and has roughly doubled since 2011.
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Eric Kaufmann
Views of racism as a major problem in the US rose from 2009 and jumped after 2016. Shows that - as with many other phenomena - media narrative/events rather than actual experience is the big driver of change pewrsr.ch/2gmIRma pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017…
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Eric Kaufmann
Views of racism as a major problem in the US rose from 2009 and jumped after 2016. Shows that - as with many other phenomena - media narrative/events rather than actual experience is the big driver of change pewrsr.ch/2gmIRma pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017…
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Most Border Wall Opponents, Supporters Say Shutdown Concessions Are Unacceptable
Partisan divide on whether shutdown is ‘very serious’ problem With the partial shutdown of the federal government in its third week, both opponents and supporters of expanding the U.S.-Mexico border wall overwhelmingly oppose making concessions to...
Against the White Male Theory of History
Adherents of both Right and Left share the assumption that history must focus on the actions of white men.
Eric Kaufmann
@xchrisgonz nicely exposes the flabbiness of ‘white male’ as an analytical frame for world history, whether in its left (white men as bogeymen) or right (white men as civilizer) variants
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Identity Crisis
In this excellent Battle of Ideas session filmed and edited by WORLDbytes volunteers, Professor Frank Furedi gives us the historical low down on society’s co...
Could Brexit fix our broken politics?
Both Labour and the Conservatives are extended conurbations decades past their usefulness. They are fat, bloated and unwieldy. They encompass too broad a bandwidth of political opinion. And it is high time this ancient duopoly was broken up. If...
Eric Kaufmann
Could Brexit fix our broken politics? Interesting take, not sure I agree with the solution: unherd.com/2019/01/could-… @unherd
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BBC Two - Politics Live, Special - 17/01/2019, In full: Tony Blair and Andrew Neil
Brexit: Tony Blair on new referendum with Andrew Neil
Trump Is Losing. His Nativist Message Is Winning.
Americans like the wall more than they like the president.
Tiers of Pride and Shame
On December 9, in the small hours of the morning, a drunk Columbia undergraduate student named Julian von Abele was filmed outside the campus’s main library delivering a passionate ode to whiteness. “White people are the best thing that ever...
Eric Kaufmann
@coldxman points to the double standard whereby a white student at Columbia expressing pride in his group’s achievements is banned while black students who do so are lauded
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Racists to the Right, Anti-Semites to the Left
In a populist age, can party establishments sideline bigots?
Eric Kaufmann
@DouthatNYT on how an overly-broad ‘cordon sanitaire’ by party elites against popular ideas like immigration restriction or wealth redistribution can produce a populist return of the repressed
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EU braced for seismic shift to the right
The EU is bracing for its biggest political earthquake since the migrant crisis as hundreds of millions prepare to turn out to vote in European elections this May. Populist parties are expected to...
Liberal candidate’s WeChat post draws criticism for singling out race of byelection opponent Jagmeet Singh | The Star
“My opponent in this byelection is the NDP candidate Singh of Indian descent!” Karen Wang wrote in Chinese in a now-deleted WeChat post. One expert accused Wang of “playing the ethnicity card” in the Burnaby South byelection.
Weiße Mehrheit im Westen im Niedergang?
Gerade in einer multi-ethnischen Umgebung haben Weiße eine Tendenz, eher Ihresgleichen zu vertrauen, wie sich ohnehin zeigen lässt, dass das Ausmaß gesellschaftlichen Vertrauens nachlässt, je heterogener eine Gesellschaft wird.
Eric Kaufmann
Nice German review of my book Whiteshift (sneps.net) in Tichys-Einblick magazine tichyseinblick.de/feuilleton/bue…
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GOP support for expanding border wall rises; Democratic support falls
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GOP support for expanding border wall rises; Democratic support falls. Now an 80-point gap (see chart 2)
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Dave Hill: Sadiq Khan speaks for London on Brexit but the city's leavers matter too
Sadiq Khan’s grasp of the majority mood in the capital has only rarely looked less than assured and his stance on Brexit demonstrates extremely well that he knows which side his electoral bread is buttered. His arrival in the House of Commons public...
What Have the Men Ever Done for Us?
Cultural leaders, including advertisers, are wandering into crazy territory.
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