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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The truth about the ethnicity pay gap
We cannot ignore the cultural factors holding back some of our communities.
Boris Johnson REFUSES to commit to cutting immigration after Brexit
BORIS JOHNSON was accused of “betraying” the Brexit vote last night after failing to commit to cutting sky-high net migration if he becomes Prime Minister. In an astonishing move, the former Vote L…
Eric Kaufmann
So long as uncertainty over Brexit is front and centre, this issue will remain latent, but what might things be like for a pro-immigration PM Johnson if there is a smooth Brexit?
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The European Parliament’s Twitter echo chamber
Tribalism in the EU assembly extends to social media, according to POLITICO’s analysis.
The world’s top 50 thinkers 2019
Prospect salutes the scientists, philosophers and writers reshaping our times—and asks for your help choosing our 2019 winners
Cambridge event with Maxime Bernier nixed amid protest fears
“The bad guys win.” That was David Haskell’s reaction to the cancellation of a speaking engagement in Cambridge promoted as “conversation, pizza and beer” with People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime...
Global restrictions on religion increased over decade, Pew report | DW | 16.07.2019
Restrictions on religion are on the rise, not just under authoritarian regimes but also in European democracies, according to the US Pew center. It found Christians are harassed in 143 countries, and Muslims in 140.
Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities
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Eric Kaufmann
Why immigration rates need to be discussed as calmly as tax rates, with an end to framing the issue as a black-and-white moral question. My talk and Q&A @CEPS_thinktank in Brussels with @AndreasShrugged youtube.com/watch?v=7MQWUC… pic.twitter.com/xXXAIAo7bk
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Air-to-air missile among weapons seized by counter-terrorism police in Italy after raid on far-right group
An air-to-air missile was among an arsenal of weapons seized by counter-terrorism police in Italy in a raid on far-right extremists.
Three people were arrested after uncovering the huge stash of automatic weapons and Nazi memorabilia, including...
How Due Process Fell Victim to Good Intentions: A Veteran Court Reporter Looks Back
The essay that follows is adapted from remarks delivered by the author upon receipt of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms’ George Jonas Freedom Award on June 14 in Toronto. I find it amusing that we’re here, celebrating freedom, at a...
Tough choice faces the Heterodox Academy
A few hundred academics, students, and others concerned about the state of higher education gathered at the Sheraton Times Square in Manhattan last month for the second annual Heterodox Academy conference. The two-day conference centered on how to...
South Korea's birth rate just crashed to another alarming low
The number of babies born last year dropped nearly 31,000 compared with the previous year.
A defeat for the populist right isn’t always a win for the social-democratic left • Social Europe
The populist right and the social-democratic left contest for the support of the popular classes but, Sheri Berman argues, it’s not a simple zero-sum game.
Attacker on Tacoma ICE Detention Center identified as "anarchist and antifascist"
Willem Van Spronsen attacked the center with incendiary devices before being shot dead. In an earlier 2018 protest outside the facility, Van Spronsen "was accused of lunging at a police officer’s neck to help free a 17-year-old protester who was...
Neutralizing Ngo: The Apologetics of Antifascist Street Violence
In Politics and the English Language, George Orwell observed that “political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible.” He detailed how certain manners of diction are employed to that end—dying metaphors, verbal false limbs,...
You Research Like a Girl: Gendered Research Agendas and Their Implications | PS: Political Science & Politics
You Research Like a Girl: Gendered Research Agendas and Their Implications - Ellen M. Key, Jane Lawrence Sumner
Norman Tebbit’s cricket test was never xenophobic, but it could do with a liberal amendment
The sporting summer reaches a kind of crescendo today with half the country flicking three ways between the British Grand Prix, the Wimbledon men’s final and the cricket world cup final at Lord’s.
Higher Education Has Become a Partisan Issue
And university budgets are suffering as a result.
China’s Gulag for Muslims
In modern-day “re-education” prisons, Beijing is forcing ethnic Uighurs to forsake their religion. Why don’t Muslim governments rise up in anger?
Justice for Andy Ngo
Journalist Andy Ngo was assaulted in Portland on June 29th, 2019 by members of Antifa