Lecture 1 Clip: The Origins and Definition of Woke

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.