Empowering Minds Through Alternative Perspectives

https://erickaufmann.substack.com/p/trumpian-amoralism-cannot-defeat What is the optimal level of morality in society? Having lived through the frenzy of woke moralism which began in the early 2010s and peaked after 2020, we now find ourselves in a world where, at least in the United States, Trump-Musk have overcorrected, taking us into a morality-free zone. Their ethos is that…

https://quillette.com/2025/04/11/if-woke-puritanism-is-the-disease-trumps-amoral-populism-isnt-the-cure-2/ To what extent should a society demand adherence to moral norms? Three months into Donald Trump’s second presidency, it’s a question worth asking. Having rejected the puritanical “woke” moralism of the 2010s and early 2020s, Americans are now enduring the opposite problem: Trump and his chief corporate enabler, Elon Musk, have over-corrected, embracing a…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyD_znb_lfE Public Participation Event with Eric Kaufmann, Jan-Werner Müller, and Pippa Norris. Speakers were asked questions to answer and model civil discourse, and then the crowd was allowed to do the same. Eric Kaufmann is Professor of Politics at The University of Buckingham and Director of the Centre for Heterodox Social Science. Previously, he was…