Eric Kaufmann

03/21/24 • 70 min

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/...

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Iona Italia

Iona Italia is Managing Editor of Quillette and a former Editor-in-Chief of Areo. We talked to her about her life and career; the virtues of letter-writing; and her work with heterodox online publications like Areo and, now, Quillette.
Iona' Substack: https://www.drionaitalia.com/
Jamie Palmer's long-read on the lab-leak hypothesis: https://quillette.com/2023/08/19/the-lab-leak-illusion/
Iona's writing for Quillette: https://quillette.com/author/iona/
James' writing for Quillette: https://quillette.com/author/james-kierstead/

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Cynical Theories (Book Club 3)

The topic of our third Free Kiwis! book club was Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay's book Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity - And Why this Harms Everybody.
We talked about its account of post-modernism and 'grievance studies,' and considered how much this has affected academia and the free speech crisis in New Zealand.
Panellists:
Dr James Kierstead, NZ Initiative
Dr Michael Johnston, NZ Initiative
Dr Matthew Birchall, NZ Initiative
Dr Bryce WIlkinson, NZ Initiative
Prof. Kendall Clements, University of Auckland
The book: https://www.thenile.co.nz/books/helen...