Eric Kaufmann
Professor of Politics. Political and religious demography #ethnicity #nationalism. From Vancouver BC. (Ice) hockey player. Dad.
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Médecins Sans Frontières is 'institutionally racist', say 1,000 insiders
Medical charity accused of shoring up colonialism and white supremacy in its work
Faculty Letter
July 4, 2020
Dear President Eisgruber, Provost Prentice, Deans Kulkarni and Dolan, Vice President for Campus Life Calhoun, and members of the Princeton Cabinet,
Anti-Blackness is foundational to America. It plays a role in where we live and where...
It Wasn’t My Cancelation That Bothered Me. It Was the Cowardice of Those Who Let It Happen - Quillette
It doesn’t take much to get cancelled these days. Last month, my turn came around. The experience was unpleasant, but also completely ludicrous. And I learned a lot. I learned how easily an institution will cave to a mob. I learned how quickly the...
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One of the best Canadian columnists has been cancelled
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7 Best New Immigration Audiobooks To Read In 2020
A list of 7 new immigration audiobooks you should read in 2020, such as Separated, Whiteshift, Border Wars and The Guarded Gate.
Why shouldn't the curriculum be 'Eurocentric'? - UnHerd
The case for 'decolonising' universities makes no sense, emperically or historically
Eric Kaufmann
Excellent piece from @NigelBiggar on the unreason of the Rhodes Must Fall and ‘decolonize the curriculum’ movement unherd.com/2020/07/why-sh… pic.twitter.com/GSFGbkPuGa
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Campus Speaker Disinvitations: Recent Trends (Part 2 of 2)
We are a little over a month into 2017 and already last year’s disinvitation outlier, Milo Yiannopoulos, has spurred a number of disinvitation attempts and event disruptions (see here, here, here, …
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@willwilkinson @Yascha_Mounk One measure: heterodoxacademy.org/campus-speaker…. Something like this should be compiled for open letters
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Are the 'Jordan Peterson generation' of Zoomers turning Right? - UnHerd
Why are the youngest cohort of voters more conservative than their elder siblings?
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Zoomers move right. Why are 18 year-olds more conservative than twentysomethings in Britain? My latest, for @unherd unherd.com/2020/07/are-th… pic.twitter.com/k67d5xjM6b
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A Letter on Justice and Open Debate | Harper's Magazine
The below letter will be appearing in the Letters section of the magazine’s October issue. We welcome responses at [email protected] Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are...
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Remove Racist Walt Whitman Statue from Rutgers-Camden Campus
A Better Remedy for Cancel Culture
To let Americans speak their minds without fearing for their jobs, we need to end at-will employment.
Black Lives Matter: Sir Keir Starmer vows to take unconscious bias training after calling protests a 'moment'
The Labour leader says he plans to do the three-hour course "as soon as I can book in for it".
Ennio Morricone, Prolific Italian Composer for the Movies, Dies at 91
Renowned for scoring Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns, the Oscar winner also produced the sounds and music for 'Days of Heaven,' 'The Mission,' 'Cinema Paradiso' and 'The Hateful Eight.'
Trump, in fiery Mount Rushmore address, decries rise of 'far-left fascism,' calls on Americans to rise up
Speaking after the legendary U.S. Navy Blue Angels roared overhead, President Trump ushered in the July 4th weekend Friday night at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota with a full-throated condemnation of "far-left fascism" and a defense of...
Eric Kaufmann
Stunning difference in coverage of Trump’s defiant July 4 speech at Mount Rushmore flagging cancel culture as a threat to American memory: FOX: foxnews.com/politics/trump…. NYT: nytimes.com/aponline/2020/…
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Trump Pushes Racial Division, Flouts Virus Rules at Rushmore
At the foot of Mount Rushmore on the eve of Independence Day, President Donald Trump made a direct appeal to disaffected white voters four months before Election Day, accusing protesters who have pushed for racial justice of engaging in a “merciless...
Eric Kaufmann
Stunning difference in coverage of Trump’s defiant July 4 speech at Mount Rushmore flagging cancel culture as a threat to American memory: FOX: foxnews.com/politics/trump…. NYT: nytimes.com/aponline/2020/…
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The 2020 Campus Muzzle Awards: Given To Those Hostile To Free Speech
And the winners are: Babson, Harvard and Tufts Universities, Holy Cross, and Harvard Law.
Open Letter to the LSA
Dear Linguistic Society of America, This is an open letter by members of the linguistics community calling for the removal of Dr. Steven Pinker from both our list of distinguished academic fellows and our list of media experts. We, the undersigned,...
Coleman Hughes: The moral case against Black Lives Matter - The Post
It’s easy to dismiss anyone querying the Black Lives Matter movement as either pointlessly contrarian or — worse — actually racist. After all, who could object to the truism contained within the movement’s name? But there are important questions to...
History Matters Project
This compendium, part of Policy Exchange’s History Matters Project, represents a first attempt at drawing together a range of recent developments, which all turn on the place of history in the public square – including the removal of certain statues...
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Please consider contributing evidence for Policy Exchange's History Matters project on any politically-motivated initiatives you know of to remove statues or alter the curriculum. Email: [email protected]
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Exclusive: BBC tells staff not to wear Black Lives Matters badges on air
Number of high-profile organisations are forced to distance themselves from Black Lives Matter as they say organisation has been "hijacked"
Politics professor Eric Kaufmann talks to Quillette's Toby Young about America's Maoist moment.
Professor Eric Kaufmann talks to Toby Young about his Quillette essay The Great Awakening and the Second American Revolution. He believes American may be going through something akin to China's Cultural Revolution in which many aspects of American...