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Eric Kaufmann is Professor of Politics at the University of Buckingham. He talked to Michael about whether the Amish will inherit the earth, whether wokeness is a religion-substitute, and how we can protect liberal science and civilization.
Eric's book on religious groups and population growth: https://www.amazon.com/Shall-Religiou...
Eric's course on wokeness: https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/courses/...

Recent events in Auckland have reminded us that a tiny minority of radical activists are determined to shut down the speech of so-called TERFs ('Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists') and stop trans issues being openly discussed. So we invited leading feminist thinker Kathleen Stock on the podcast to have a wide-ranging discussion of trans rights, women's rights, and related issues.
Kathleen was a professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex until 2021, when she was driven out by a campaign of targeted harassment. We talked to her about the Posie Parker episode; feminism and free speech; what gender is anyway; and what futures there might be for those who want to be able to discuss things openly and freely but who no longer feel at home in universities.
Kathleen's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Docstockk
Free Kiwis! Twitter: https://twitter.com/FreeKiwis

David Rozado is an Associate Professor of Information Technology at Otago Polytechnic. One of his interests is in word frequencies and word associations in large collections of texts, especially from the news media.
We talked to David about our recent survey of free expression among NZ undergraduates; his work on prejudice-denoting terms in news media and in academic papers; and his work on negative emotionality in news media.
David's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidRozado
David's Substack: https://davidrozado.substack.com
Our survey of NZ undergraduates: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/11/11/502
Nicholas Wade's piece: https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-o...
FreeKiwis! Twitter: https://twitter.com/FreeKiwis
A version of this episode with graphs is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE-3gCtKs3Y

Nigel Biggar is an emeritus professor at Oxford University, where he was Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology. He is also an Anglican priest. His most recent book is Colonialism. A Moral Reckoning (2023). We talked to Prof. Biggar about the how to assess the British Empire and about the roots of our universities' ongoing travails.
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Colonialism-Moral-Reckoning-Nigel-Biggar/dp/0008511632

Dr. David Lillis is a statistician and data scientist who has worked for the Royal Society of New Zealand, the New Zealand Qualifications Authority, and the New Zealand Institute for Sport. We talked to him about some recent studies of the representation of Māori and women in NZ academia. We also talked about reforms to the school curriculum and about the response to Listener letter on science.
McAllister 2022, 50 Reasons Why There Are No Māori in Your Science Department: .
https://www.journalofglobalindigeneity.com/article/55788-50-reasons-why-there-are-no-maori-in-your-science-department
McAllister et al. 2019, Why Isn't My Professor Māori: https://www.journal.mai.ac.nz/content/why-isn%E2%80%99t-my-professor-m%C4%81ori-snapshot-academic-workforce-new-zealand-universities
McAllister et al 2020, Glass Ceilings in NZ Universities: https://www.journal.mai.ac.nz/content/glass-ceilings-new-zealand-universities-inequities-m%C4%81ori-and-pacific-promotions-and-earnings
Lillis 2023, Allegations of Racism in NZ Universities: https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/03/dr-david-lillis-allegations-of-racism.html
Brower and James 2020, Research Performance and Age Explain Less than Half of the Gender Pay Gap in NZ Universities: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0226392
Pluckrose, Lindsay, and Boghossian, Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship: https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/
Kierstead and Johnston 2022, Rift Exposes Why NZ Science Body Needs Serious Reform: https://www.nzinitiative.org.nz/reports-and-media/opinion/rift-exposes-why-nz-science-body-needs-serious-reform/