Eric Kaufmann is Professor of Politics at the University of Buckingham and Director of the Centre for Heterodox Social Science. He is author of Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Led to a Cultural Revolution (Forum Press 2024) and Whiteshift: Immigration, Populism and the Future of White Majorities (Penguin 2018). He is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, Policy Exchange and the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
I’m so glad that someone has finally published something coherent on this issue. The paranoid protestations of the people writing about this stuff on right has always seemed to me equally as nuts as the ideological extremes they are railing against. There is a deep irony that the bizarre cultural, ideological madness that has been happening on the left over the past few decades can only be truly understood by those with at least a passing understanding of the (mainly solid) ideas that preceded the current derangement. Barely informed James Lindsay disciples clumsily using “Postmodernism” as a catch all term for a century of academic thought, not realizing the concepts they are casually using to critique this hated “ideology” come from the thing they so despise. Thanks, Erik.
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Eric Kaufmann
Paul,
Thanks – that’s much appreciated.
Eric
Paul C
I’m so glad that someone has finally published something coherent on this issue. The paranoid protestations of the people writing about this stuff on right has always seemed to me equally as nuts as the ideological extremes they are railing against. There is a deep irony that the bizarre cultural, ideological madness that has been happening on the left over the past few decades can only be truly understood by those with at least a passing understanding of the (mainly solid) ideas that preceded the current derangement. Barely informed James Lindsay disciples clumsily using “Postmodernism” as a catch all term for a century of academic thought, not realizing the concepts they are casually using to critique this hated “ideology” come from the thing they so despise. Thanks, Erik.