Nationalism and the Culture Wars podcast

On Podspace podcast, "Populist or Politically Correct," Oslo, Norway, Dec 5. Host is Anders Imenes. For more, see: https://pod.space/skravleklassen/populist-eller-politisk-korrekt

Are we living in a populist moment, or a larger national-populist restructuring of liberal Western democratic order? This session offers a survey of national-populist elements on both sides of the Atlantic in recent years, from the 2016 election of President Trump and the UK’s Brexit debate, to the recent run of elections in Hungary, Poland, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, France, and Austria. How...

Eric Kaufmann discusses Academic Freedom in response to the no-platforming of feminist speaker Rachel Ara and a new Policy Exchange report into academic freedom https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Academic-freedom-in-the-UK.pdf.

From The Origins of Totalitarianism to The Crises in Little Rock Arendt’s thinking on race is controversial and has often led many to quickly dismiss her thoughts on race and antisemitism entirely. The Hannah Arendt Center’s 12th annual conference on “Racism and Antisemitism” will explore these oft shunned concepts in Arendt’s work in the context of our contemporary political moment which is marke...

Riley Institute at Furman University Straight Talk 2019, session 2. Culture Wars: Multiculturalism and the Future of White Identity People who identify strongly with their whiteness can feel threatened by shifting majorities. Should conservatives be able to express a sense of loss without being labeled as racists? How is demographic change transforming Western politics? How should we think about t...

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Eric Kaufmann (Whiteshift, Birkbeck College, University of London) Eric’s new book on populism and immigration, Whiteshift 0:12 Why it’s counterproductive to call Trump supporters racist 8:12 Eric’s vision of an American ethnic nationalism 13:12 Bob: Ideally, shouldn’t we get past ethnicity? 23:21 Will mixed-...

On this episode of the Argument Ninja podcast I talk about the difficulty of judging how much we really understand about the causes of complex social phenomena—even if we do lots of research and self-study. To help make the case I’m continuing my survey of different theories of the causes of the increase in social polarization that we’re currently experiencing. On this episode I look specifically...

Eric Kaufmann?a professor of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London?examines White identity politics and the response of many white people in the West to the increasing racial diversity of their countries. Domenech and Kaufmann discuss the effects of immigration, religion, and transgender issues in relation to ethnic change in North American and Western Europe. Kaufmann's new book is "...

On Thursday 22nd of August the Henry Jackson Society was pleased to welcome Professor Eric Kaufmann, author of Whiteshift and Professor of Politics at Birckbeck College, University of London, to lead a discussion on the UK’s future immigration system in the post-Brexit context. While it is widely understood that immigration concerns fed into the Leave vote, it remains unclear what our immigration...

A talk on Whiteshift by Eric Kaufmann at the Centre for European Policy Studies, the EU's leading independent think tank. July 10, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MQWUCb55L4

Eric Kaufmann, Professor of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London, and author of "Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities," joins David to discuss the future of race and right-wing populism in America -Become a Member: https://www.davidpakman.com/membership -Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/davidpakmanshow -Join on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel...

Recorded on March 8, 2019 This is the first of our podcast series – The Integration Conversation – to discuss the latest developments in the field. Our first one features Trevor Phillips and Eric Kaufmann, discussing the issue of the decline of white majorities raised in Kaufmann’s book ‘Whiteshift’, alongside issues of knife crime, white flight, European refugee integration, Muslim integration, a...

This interactive public event comprises a panel-based discussion, with representatives from different influential spheres in society who are shaping discourse on British identity, combined with direct audience engagement. Via http://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-Festival/NewWorldDisorders/Events/20190302/what-does-it-mean-to-be-british

In this excellent Battle of Ideas 2018 session filmed and edited by WORLDbytes volunteers, Professor Frank Furedi gives us the historical low down on society’s concern with identity. Today’s identity politics, he explains, have absolutely no redeeming features. The speakers are: Professor Frank Furedi, the respondents are Remi Adekoya, Rachel Halliburton and Eric Kaufmann. The chair is Claire Fox....

A discussion on “Is there an ideological monoculture at British universities, and does it matter?” with: Jonathan Haidt, Author, The Coddling of the American Mind Eric Kaufmann, Professor of Politics, Birkbeck College Joanna Williams, Head of Education, Policy Exchange and Author, Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity Lord Macdonald of River Glaven Kt QC, Warden, Wadham College, University of O...

Interview on BBC Asian Network on US Midterms, 7 November 2018

My Interview on US Midterms on BBC Radio 4 World At One, with Sarah Montague, discussing issues around white identity, Trump and the midterms.

On BBC Radio 4 Start the Week with Andrew Marr and Francis Fukuyama to discuss Identity Politics, 15 October 2018

This event hosted by Birkbeck on 15 November 2018 focused on and around topics from Eric Kaufmann's new book Whiteshift. The book argues that we need to talk about white identity if we hope to address the root causes of populism and polarisation. The West is in the midst of two epochal demographic transformations. First, the white share of the population is projected to drop to less than half the...

Recording of an event which took place on Thursday 5 July at Birkbeck. Is the rise of populism in the West a threat to liberal democracy, or does it renew democracy by bringing new voices into the conversation? All panellists agree that elites bear some culpability for the rise of populism, but how should the system be reformed? The evening featured a panel debate between four high-profile speaker...

A discussion about the drivers of right-wing populism in the West, and of the connections to nationalism. Featuring Eric Kaufmann and Daphne Halikiopoulou. A podcast of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN), hosted by Nick James of LSE.

Roundtable discussion on current attitudes towards immigration, hosted by the Birkbeck Department of Politics . Chaired by Professor Rosie Campbell with speakers Professor Eric Kaufmann, Dr Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij & Anna Killick. 9 May, 2018

Erik Tillman of De Pauw University, Chicago, on Psychological Authoritarianism and Populist Right Support in Western Europe. Introduced by Eric Kaufmann. Birkbeck College, University of London, 17 May 2017

Staff from the Department of Politics at Birkbeck College and special guest David Goodhart discuss the populist backlash in Western politics. This debate features Professor Eric Kaufmann, Dr Sam Ashenden, Dr Jason Edwards and special guest David Goodhart, founding editor of Prospect magazine and head of the Demography, Immigration and Integration Unit at Policy Exchange. Dr Alex Colas, Head of the...

Shortly after Trump’s victory, the Economist ran a cover story on ‘the New Nationalism.’ Professor Tony Travers of LSE chairs this event featuring an Economist editor and two experts on the populist right to ask, ‘Why the upsurge in nationalism?’ Richard Cockett (@CockettRichard) is an editor at The Economist who has written extensively on nationalism and immigration around the world for the newsp...