186 - You're Not Allowed to Say This | Eric Kaufmann

About this episode

Timothy Allen interviews Eric Kaufmann about the origins of woke culture and its implications on race and identity.

Woke's 1960s Origins, the Race Taboo, and the End of the Progressive Era – Eric Kaufmann is a Canadian professor of politics at the University of Buckingham, where he directs the Centre for Heterodox Social Science. One of the most prominent academic voices on nationalism, national identity, and political demography, he is the author of Whiteshift: Immigration, Populism and the Future of White Majorities (Penguin, 2018) and Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Produced a Cultural Revolution (2024, published in the United States as The Third Awokening). After two decades at Birkbeck, University of London, he left in 2023 for Buckingham, Britain's self-described free speech university, following what he calls five years of steady hostility and being "cancelled by a thousand cuts." Timothy Allen sits down with Eric in the UK for an honest, often uncomfortable conversation about race, identity, and the things you are no longer allowed to say out loud. They move from Kaufmann's own cancellation story across two decades in British academia, through his central argument that woke is not new but the late-stage unfolding of the 1960s, to the claim that the whole edifice traces back to a single…

People in this episode

Host: Timothy Allen

Guest: Eric Kaufmann

Topics covered

• woke culture
• race
• identity
• political demography
• cancellation
• affirmative action

Keywords

• woke
• cancellation
• race taboo
• 1960s origins
• affirmative action
• national identity
• cultural revolution

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Buckingham, Birkbeck, University of London

Books & works: Whiteshift: Immigration, Populism and the Future of White Majorities, Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Produced a Cultural Revolution

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