Eric’s new book is entitled Whiteshift: populism, immigration and the future of White majorities. It was published February 5, 2019 in North America with Abrams-Overlook. It was published by Penguin (Allen Lane) in the UK and Australia on October 25, 2018 (paperback 29 Aug 2019).

For For North America publicity enquiries, contact Tracy Carns (Abrams/Overlook).

For UK/Australia/Europe publicity enquiries, contact Kate Smith (Penguin). 

 

Whiteshift argues that the current upsurge of right-wing populism in the West stems from the existential plight of white majorities in an age of large-scale North-South migration.

Based on extensive survey, demographic and electoral data rather than anecdotes and impressions, it sets out four main white responses to ethnic change: fight, flee, repress and join.

It looks ahead, projecting the rise of mixed-race majorities in the West, but viewing this less as a futuristic end of identity than evidence for Whiteshift, the absorption of a great deal of ethnoracial difference into historic white majorities.

The book makes the case for an open form of white identity, urging that whiteness be de-stigmatised and nested within modular national identities. Western societies need to frankly address the ‘who are we?’ and ‘where are we going?’ questions which high-identifying members of white majorities are asking if we hope to avert deeper divisions – even terrorism – within western societies.

5-minute clip of me explaining some key aspects of the book on BBC Radio 4 Start the Week, with Andrew Marr, (full episode also features Frances Fukuyama and discussion on Identity Politics), Oct 14, 2018

30-minute televised interview, The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TV Ontario, Canada, Oct 14, 2018

hour-length long-form Triggernometry youtube interview with Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster, published Oct 28, 2018

On Ezra Klein Show, ‘In defense of white backlash politics,’ Apr 15, 2019

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• • ‘The Social Construction of Racism in the United States,’ Manhattan Institute report, Apr 7, 2021
  • cited in Robert Verbruggen, ‘The Psychology of the Great Awokening,’ National Review, Apr 6, 2021
  • Spoke on ‘Populism and Political Change in the West,’ Harvard University, Kennedy School Growth Lab, Apr 1
  • ‘Why the Race Equalities Report is so subversive,’ Unherd, Mar 31
  • Spoke on ‘Academic Freedom in Crisis,’ Bipartisan Policy Center
  • ‘The Crisis of Academic Freedom in Canada, and How to Address It,’ Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Mar 30
  • Spoke at ‘UK Gov’s Free Speech Champion – Hero or Oxymoron?, with Dr Dennis Hayes‘, Free Speech Champions, Mar 25
  • Cited in Lee Jussim, ‘How Social Norms Create a Culture of Censorship‘, Psychology Today, Mar 25
  • Cited in Barbara Kay, ‘Government-sponsored erasure of women’s rights advances with the word ‘female’ being banned on International Women’s Day,’ Postmillenial, Mar 24
  • Cited in National Review, Mar 24
  • Spoke at University of Buckingham Free Speech conference, Mar 23 local coverage
  • Cited in Claire Lehmann, ‘Open letters the latest weapon of bullies on campus,’ The Australian, Mar 23
  • On What Happens Next in 6 Minutes (episode) Mar 22
  • Cited in Lee Jussim, ‘The Rise of a Culture of Censorship‘, Psychology Today, Mar 17
  • ‘Few Academics Support Cancel Culture,’ Heterodox Academy, Mar 17
  • CSPI report cited in ‘Zaid Jilani: New Research Reveals Authoritarian Impulses Of Young Academics,’ on Rising (with Krystal and Saagar), The Hill, Mar 15
  • On Eric Lybeck, ‘Freezepeach Live‘, debating academic freedom report and government white paper, Mar 15
  • ‘The Threat to Academic Freedom: From Anecdotes to Data,’ Quillette, Mar 12
  • Cited in Cathy Young, ‘The Rising Threat on Campuses,’ Persuasion, Mar 12
  • ‘There is still hope for our universities,’ Jungefreiheit, Mar 8
  • Cited in ‘Canaries in the coal mine: Kaufmann Report warns of ‘Academic Freedom in Crisis’ FIRE.org, Mar 8
  • On WCLO Janesville (WI), Mar 8 clip
  • Cited in Zoe Strimpel, ‘Jews are the forgotten minority in the march toward wokeness,’ Telegraph, Mar 7
  • Cited in Ian Brodie, ‘Taking On “Repressive Tolerance” At Canada’s Universities,‘ C2C Journal, Mar 6
  • ‘A Necessary Intervention,’ City Journal, Mar 4
  • cited in ‘Opinion: The results are in — there is an ingrained bias in academia against conservatives,’ National Post, Mar 4
  • cited in ‘GOLDSTEIN: Liberal bias in Canadian universities is a fact, study says,’ Toronto Sun, Mar 4
  • ‘We have the data to prove it: universities are hostile to conservatives,’ Newsweek, Mar 3
  • Interviews on CSPI report on Chicago’s Morning Answer, Guy Benson Show (Fox), WJR FM, Fox Business. Also cited on The First.
  • On Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI) podcast on ‘Academic Freedom’ with Richard Hanania, Mar ‘2
  • Cited in Bjorn Harms, ‘Attack on Free Science,’ Jungefreiheit, Mar 2
  • ‘Academic Freedom in Crisis: Punishment, Political Discrimination, and Self-Censorship,’ Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI) report, Mar 1, 2021 cited in Free Beacon, Counterweight, NY Post, Power Line, RT, Daily Caller, Daily Wire ,PJ Media, KMJ, Persuasion, Newsbusters, Patriot Post, The Australian, The College Fix, Legal Insurrection
  • ‘Academic Freedom is Withering,’ Wall Street Journal, Feb 28
  • Appeared on Moral Maze on BBC Radio 4, ‘Free Speech at Universities,’ Feb 24
  • ‘Inclusive Majorities in an Inclusive Nation: Managing Ethnic Diversity,’ Minding the Campus, Feb 23
  • ‘Only government can break the spell of woke activists over our universities,’ Telegraph, Feb 16
  • My co-authored 2019 and 2020 Policy Exchange reports on ‘Academic Freedom in the UK’ cited in UK Government white paper, Higher education: free speech and academic freedom, Feb 16. Report endorsed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson
  • ‘Immigration and Stealing Jokes,’ Comedy Cellar NYC podcast, Feb. 13
  • ‘How Stable is the Democratic Coalition?‘ New York Times, Feb. 13, 2021
  • ‘Teeming Shore‘ (review of Jia Lynn Yang’s One Mighty and Irresistable Tide), Claremont Review of Books, Winter 20/21 Issue
  • Cited in David Goodhart, ‘The Future is Mixed-Race,’ Unherd, Feb. 4, 2021
  • ‘Big tech a threat to freedom of speech,’ politics.co.uk, Jan. 28, 2021
  • Cited in Sir Michael Barber, ‘Houses of Wisdom‘, Commemoration Oration, King’s College, Jan 20, 2021
  • ‘Letter to the Editor: Twitter has no right to curb free speech,’ Sunday Times, Jan 17, 2021
  • ‘Trumpism is Here to Stay,’ Unherd, Jan 18, 2021
  • Cited in ‘What is the 4-Axis Test and why has it gone viral,’ Explica, Jan 15, 2021
  • ‘No, elite overproduction doesn’t cause social unrest,’ Unherd, Jan 14, 2021
  • Cited in Musa al-Gharbi, ‘Diversity Training’ Doesn’t Work. This Might,’ Heterodox Academy, Dec 29
  • Cited in Emily Ekins and David Kemp, ‘What Increases Public Support for Immigration? Results from a New Experiment,’ Cato Institute blog, Dec 29
  • review of Whiteshift by Andy Hira, ‘White Majorities at a Transition Point,’ Inroads magazine
  • Cited in Musa al-Gharbi, ‘The Great Awokening and the Stillborn Revolution,’ Counterpunch, Dec 18
  • On What Happens Next in 6 Minutes podcast, Dec 13, 2020 clip
  • ‘The Upswing by Robert D Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett, review — how to make sense of a divided America,’ Times, Dec 13
  • Cited in Paulo Gerbaudo, ‘Right-Wing Populism May Be Wounded, But It’s Certainly Not Dead,’ Jacobin (December)
  • ‘This House Believes that Labour has Betrayed the Working-Class‘, Exeter University Union Debate, Nov 27
  • ‘Liberal Fundamentalism: A Sociology of Wokeness,’ American Affairs (Winter) Volume IV, Number 4 (Winter 2020): 188–208
  • On Federalist radio, Nov 18 segment
  • On Dan Proft Show, AM 560, Chicago, Nov 18 segment
  • ‘Ethnicity, culture and religious nationalism, with Eric Kaufmann,‘ Religious Nationalism podcast, Nov 17
  • ‘Blood on their Hands,’ Law and Liberty book review, Nov 16
  • Cited in Josh Kraushaar, ‘Why pollsters missed the election results so badly,’ National Journal, Nov 11
  • ‘Academic Freedom and Cancel Culture,’ City-Journal, Nov 10, carried in Real Clear Policy (Nov 12)
  • Article on Shy Trumpers cited in Andrew Sullivan, ‘Trump is gone. Trumpism just arrived‘, Nov 6, 2020; also in Federalist, Spectator, Chicago Daily Herald
  • ‘Who are the real Shy Trumpers?,’ Unherd, Nov 6, 2020, carried in Real Clear Politics, Nov 9
  • ‘Free Speech Under Threat: what does the data say?’, Roger Scruton Centre, 29 Oct webcast
  • Feature on Whiteshift in Morganbladet (Norway), Oct 22
  • ‘Cancel Culture has captured campus,‘ Unherd, Oct 21
  • ‘How Political Correctness on race fuels polarization,’ Minding the Campus, Oct 19
  • In Cambridge Union Debate, ‘Is Free Speech Dead?’, Cambridge University, Oct 15
  • Mention of Academic Freedom report in Oxford Vice-Chancellor address, Oct 6
  • ‘BLM divides white Americans more than anyone else,’ Unherd, Oct 5
  • On panel, ‘Is Academic Freedom at Risk?’, Conservative Party Conference / Policy Exchange, Oct 3
  • Cited in Kay Hymowitz, ‘Triple America‘, City-Journal, Oct 2
  • Spoke on panel on race issues at UBC Free Speech Club, Sept. 28
  • Cited in Charlie Burt and Georgie Campbell, ‘How is cancel culture affecting UK universities?‘, Times, Sept 20
  • Cited in Douglas Murray, ‘How America Came Apart,’ Unherd, Sept. 18
  • ‘The Denial of Cancel Culture,’ Quillette, Sept. 1
  • ‘Challenging Censorship on Campus‘ – debate with Joanna Williams and Radomir Tylecote, Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA), Aug 26
  • Cited in Cameron Stewart, ‘Fine rhetoric, Obama, but you missed the cultural car crash of your era,’ The Australian, Aug. 22
  • Report cited in Philip Plickert, ‘Poisoned climate in British universities‘, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Aug 13
  • ‘Eric Kaufmann: A chilling effect is taking place at British universities. An Academic Freedom Bill can change that,’ Conservative Home, Aug 4
  • (with Remi Adekoya), ‘Academics feel forced to self-censor,’ Times, Aug 3
  • Report, co-authored with Remi Adekoya and Tom Simpson, ‘Academic Freedom in the UK: protecting viewpoint diversity,’  August 3, 2020 – coverage in Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Unherd, Times radio, Mail, Express/Star, Times Higher, Wonkhe, The Critic, Sun, New European, Express, Spectator, Capx,
  • Cited in Evan Smith, No Platform (2020)
  • Cited in Rod Dreher, ‘David Shor and Whiteshifting America,’ American Conservative, July 17, 2020
  • Cited in Darren Grimes, ‘Today, it’s Conservatives who are the real rebels,’ Conservative Home, July 15
  • Cited in Julie Burchill, ‘The young and woke will be older and wiser one day,’ Daily Telegraph, July 12
  • ‘Are Young People Turning to the Right,’ Unherd, July 7
  • On Dan Proft Show, AM 560, Chicago, July 1 segment
  • On Federalist Radio Hour, with Ben Domenech, Jun 30 clip
  • ‘America’s Maoist Moment,’ Quillette podcast with Toby Young, Jun 28
  • ‘The Great Awokening and the Second American Revolution,’ Quillette, Jun 25, cited in   The Article, National Review,  American Conservative, Federalist, Patheos,  Patheos II  ,Patheos III, PJ Media (Mt Rushmore), Federalist (in context of Trump interview), Patriot PostI , II
  • video: ‘An Intellectual History of ‘Woke’ Left-Modernism‘ (with Matthew Goodwin), recorded Jun 10
  • ‘Which way will the west turn – Left or Right?,’ Financial Times, May 27
  • ‘Cummings is Guilty, but Shouldn’t Resign,’ Unherd, May 27
  • ‘The Crisis of Ethnic Majorities in an Age of Migration,’ Standpoint, May
  • Cited in Hanania, ‘White Privilege Rhetoric,’ Heterodox Academy, May 22
  • Hanania, Richard, George Hawley, and Eric Kaufmann. 2020. “Losing Elections, Winning the Debate: Progressive Racial Rhetoric and White Backlash.” PsyArXiv. May 12. doi:10.31234/osf.io/uzkvf. – coverage on Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution, May 13, 2020, and Washington Free Beacon, May 14
  • On e2Review podcast with Max Klinger, Apr 14
  • ‘Who Polarized Us?‘ review of Ezra Klein’s Why We’re Polarized, Law and Liberty, Apr 10, 2020
  • Cited in Tom Edsall, ‘How Racist Is Trump’s Republican Party?‘, New York Times, Mar 18
  • on No Man’s Land podcast, Mar 9
  • Discussed in ‘Phil Boas: Why Our Immigration Views Go Deeper Than Politics,’ KJZZ 91.5 (Arizona).
  • PX report with Tom Simpson cited in Paul Waugh, ‘Ministers Preparing New Law To ‘Protect Freedom Of Speech’ At Universities‘, HuffPost UK, Mar 7
  • ‘What your views about immigration say about you (hint: it’s way deeper than just politics)‘, Arizona Republic, Mar 8
  • Debate Interview, ‘The professor, who is called a racist: White people need to get used to being a minority,’ Berlingske (Denmark), Mar 8
  • In Durham Union debate on populism, opposing the motion (on populist leaders as death of democracy), Mar 6
  • ‘David Lammy’s double standards‘, Unherd, Mar 5
  • Cited in Rhea Malviya, ‘Conservative speaker at Undergraduate Political Review elicits uproar and reflection,’ LSE Beaver, Mar 4
  • Cited in Stephen Bush, ‘It’s not the Labour leadership candidates who won’t stop talking about trans issues,’ New Statesman, 2 Mar
  • ‘For God and Country,’ Washington Examiner, Feb 27
  • ‘How the Trans Pledge Damaged the Labour Party,’ Quillette, Feb 27
  • On Half Hour of Heterodoxy, with Chris Martin, Feb 25
  • Spoke at Universities UK (UUK) conference, on academic freedom report (320 pm), Feb 27
  • On Dan Proft Show, AM 560, Chicago, Feb 21 segment
  • On Corner Table podcast, with Jack Aldane, Feb 20
  • ITN/Channel 4 News immigration debate with Sunder Katwala, hosted by Gary Gibbon, Feb 20 youtube podcast
  • Cited in James Morris, ‘It will remain an issue’: This is what British people really think about immigration‘, Yahoo News, Feb 20
  • ‘On Academic Freedom,’ LSE Undergraduate Political Review annual conference, London School of Economics, Feb 18
  • Cited in Sam Kronen, ‘#ItsOkayToBeWhite‘, Areo Magazine, Feb 17
  • ‘Whiteshift’, Christ Church College, Oxford University, Feb 14
  • ‘Why the Left is Losing,’ Law and Liberty, Feb 13
  • King’s College London panel on migration issue, Bush House, 3-5pm, Feb 12
  • Cited in Matthew Goodwin, ‘The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Metropolitan Elite by Michael Lind review — populism and the end of elitism,’ Times, 9 Feb
  • Our Policy Exchange report cited in Gavin Williamson, ‘If universities can’t defend free speech the government will,’ Times, 7 Feb; Rosemary Bennett, ‘Gavin Williamson gives universities final warning on free speech‘, Times, 7 Feb
  • Cited in Doug Saunders,’ You can’t fight anti-immigration politics with immigration policies – you need to change the channel‘, Toronto Globe and Mail, Feb 7
  • ‘Why evidence, not narrative, must guide us: Responding to my critics‘, Volume 20, Issue 1 of Ethnicities
  • ‘Populism: tamed by Johnson, but for how long,’ The UK in a Changing Europe, Jan 31, 2020
  • Cited in Kenan Malik, ‘The uncomfortable truths about Roger Scruton’s conservatism‘, Guardian, Jan 18
  • Cited in Jonathan Portes, ‘Roger Scruton’s brand of conservatism became a licence for bigotry,’ Guardian, Jan 17
  • Cited in H.A. Hellyer, ‘We Are Not Who We Think We Are,‘ Foreign Policy, Jan 13, 2020
  • Cited in Mark Brolin, ‘Many other European parties will have to do what Boris Johnson did, or die away,’ Telegraph, Jan 10, 2020
  • with Matthew Goodwin, ‘Is the Big Shake-Up in Britain Coming to the U.S.?,’ New York Times, Dec 21
  • ‘Academic Freedom in the UK,’ Heterodox Academy, Dec 17
  • Cited in Thomas Edsall, “Trump Has a Gift for Tearing Us Apart,” New York Times, Dec 11
  • On Measure for Measure, with Sharyl Atkisson, Dec 8 clip
  • Cited in “Study: Conservative Students Feel Unable to Express Views at UK Universities“, Dec 6
  • On Podspace podcast, “Populist or Politically Correct,” Oslo, Norway, Dec 5
  • Cited in ‘Many people in Eastwood are anti-immigration, new survey reveals,’ Eastwood & Kimberley Advertiser, Dec 5 (also in several other local papers)
  • Cited in Simon Jenkins, ‘This election will be all about identity, not money. And the Tories know it,’ Guardian, Nov 28
  • Review by Sabrina Tavernise in New York Times ‘New and Noteworthy’ section, 26 Nov
  • Whiteshift listed as a Marginal Revolution book of the year, Nov 25
  • ‘White Identity and Ethno-Traditional Nationalism in Trump’s America’, Forum, 17(3): 385–402
  • On SKY News discussing Academic Freedom, Nov 21
  • co-authored with Tom Simpson, ‘Academic Freedom in the UK,’ Policy Exchange, Nov 11 coverage in Times, Mail, Telegraph, Spiked, Express, Breitbart
  • Cited in Nicola Woolcock, ‘Students Turn against Free Speech amid “culture of conformity” ‘, Times, Nov 11
  • Cited in Tom Simpson, ‘Academic freedom must be backed up with hard policy,’ Times, Nov 11
  • Cite in Charles King, ‘America’s Original Identity Politics
    Rich Lowry’s Flawed Case for Nationalism,’ Foreign Affairs, Nov 7
  • Cited in Ali Noorani, ‘How we can — and must — build consensus on immigration,’ The Hill, Nov 7
  • Cited in David Brooks, ‘How to Beat Trump on Immigration,’ New York Times, Nov 7
  • Spoke at ‘From America to Europe: Identity, Mass Immigration and White Backlash’ conference, ISCTE-IUL University, Lisbon, Nov 5 slides
  • At Faith Angle Forum, Cap Ferrat, France, Nov 4
  • On Law and Liberty podcast, ‘Managing Whiteshift’, Nov 4, 2019
  • Featured in ‘Immigration Issues‘ segment, Sharyl Atkisson, Full Measure, Oct 27
  • Cited in Daniel Hannan, ‘I thought Britain had biased, Left-wing media – until I spent time in Canada,’ Telegraph, Oct 27
  • Interviewed by Christian Bennike, in ‘Meet the professor who advocates a new white identity policy – which is not racist,’ Information (Denmark), Oct 25
  • Review of Whiteshift by Darel Paul, ‘ The Future is Mixed’, First Things,’ November issue
  • Mention in James Barrett, ‘Study: Data Suggests Conservative Content Leads To ‘De-Radicalization, Not Radicalization,’ Daily Wire, Oct 24
  • Immigration in a Fragile World: Between Nationalism & Humanitarianism,’ Provost’s Forum, Duke University, Durham, SC, Oct 18 summary in Duke Today
  • On TVO #onpoli, ‘Is it Racist to Want Less Immigration?’ episode with Steve Paikin, Oct 17
  • Review of Whiteshift and two other books, by Nell Painter, ‘What is White America: the Identity Politics of the Majority,’ Foreign Affairs, Oct/Nov Issue
  • ‘Universities Must Define Free Speech,’ letter to Times, 13 Oct
  • Hannah Arendt Center Race and Antisemitism conference, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, Oct 10-11 webcast
  • ‘The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray — slay the dragon, then stop,’ Financial Times, Oct 11
  • Cited in Megan McArdle, ‘What’s Behind the Rise of Radicalism?‘, Washington Post, Oct 9
  • On Two for Tea with Iona Italia podcast, Oct 2
  • Cited in Richard Warnica, ‘Can Canada Ward Off a Populist Surge?,’ Politico, October 2
  • Cited in Robin Levinson-King, ‘Maxime Bernier: Can populism become popular in Canada?,’ BBC, Sept 23
  • On Robert Wright Show, Bloggingheads TV, Sept 13
  • Cited in Ken Masugi, ‘Pink Political Scientists vs. White Men‘,  American Greatness, Sept 13
  • ‘The Great White Decline‘ (review of Whiteshift by George Michael), Skeptic magazine, September (24.3)
  • ‘Is Conservatism normalising the alt Right?‘, Unherd, Sept 10
  • Cited in Joel Kotkin, ‘The Politics of Procreation,’ Hot Air blog, Sept 8
  • On Federalist Radio Hour, Washington, DC, with Ben Domenech, Sept 6
  • Cited in Philip Jenkins, ‘The Decline of Death,’ Patheos ‘Anxious Beach’ blog, Sept 6
  • Spoke on ‘Culture Wars: Multiculturalism and the Future of White Identity,’ panel, Riley Institute, Furman University, Greenville, SC, Sept 6 video
  • ‘Timeless Landscape or Diverse Urbanity: national identity in the US and England‘ and ‘The ‘Religion of Anti-Racism’: Why Ideology, not Tribalism, Explains the Rise of Identity Politics’, at American Political Science Association conference, Washington, Aug 29, 31 (2 panels)
  • On Kevin Delaplante podcast ‘Understanding Complex Social Phenomena: More Theories of the Causes of Social Polarization,’ (feat. summary of work by Jonathan Haidt, Karen Stenner and myself), Aug. 28
  • ‘If Greens want to save the world, it’s time they talked Tory,’ Times, Aug 25
  • Listed in ‘The best new paperbacks: from Sebastian Faulks to Diane Setterfield‘, Times, Aug 24
  • Cited in Eric Levitz, ‘The ‘1619 Project’ Isn’t Anti-American — It’s Anti-White Identity Politics,’ New York Magazine Intelligencer, Aug 23
  • ‘UK Immigration Policy After Brexit’ event, hosted by Henry Jackson Society, Aug 22 video audio
  • On Matt Lewis and the News podcast, Aug 22
  • ‘Is Woke Culture Totalitarian,’ Unherd, Aug. 21
  • Cited in Rod Dreher, ‘The NYT’s Woke-ism Undermines Liberalism,’ American Conservative, Aug 20
  • Cited in Michael Barone, ‘Will fact-checkers foil Democrats’ attempt to play the race card?,’ Washington Examiner, Aug. 14
  • Cited in Edward Chang, ‘Why Going After Guns And Everything Labeled White Supremacy Won’t Solve Shootings,’ Federalist.com, Aug. 7
  • Cited in Zachary Stieber, ‘ ‘You’ve Got to be Kidding Me:’ El Paso Walmart Shooting Victim Says Mom Left Gun at Home,’ Epoch Times, Aug. 6
  • Review of Whiteshift in W. James Antle III, ‘Demography and the Populists’ Destiny,’ The American Conservative, July 29
  • ‘Why Is Secularization Likely to Stall in America by 2050? A Response to Laurie DeRose,’ Institute for Family Studies (IFS) blog, July 24
  • Interviewed about populism in the West and Canada, on Elias Makos Show, News Talk Radio, CJAD Montreal, July 23
  • Mention in Matthew Goodwin, ‘The Great Betrayal by Rod Liddle review — a no-holds-barred attack on the Establishment’s blocking of Brexit’, Sunday Times,  July 20
  • Cited by Stuart Thomson, ‘I don’t think Canada will be the great exception’ to populist disruption, expert says,’ National Post, July 19. Also in Vancouver Sun and Montreal Gazette
  • Review essay by Rod Dreher, ‘Asymmetrical Multiculturalism‘, The American Conservative, July 17
  • Review by John Allemang, ‘White Noise: Much Ado About Diversity,’ Literary Review of Canada, July issue
  • Mercator Dialogue on Migration and Asylum (MEDAM), Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) think tank, European Parliament, Brussels, July 10 webcast
  • Whiteshift reviewed as ‘The Crisis of White Identity‘, Areo magazine, July 7
  • Letters to the editor: ‘Free speech throttled by the campus virtue police,’ Sunday Times, July 7
  • In ‘ “Panel disussion: Free speech on campus” with Joanna Williams, Toby Young and Eric Kaufmann,’ THINK Festival, Institute of Economic Affairs, London, July 6
  • On Conversations with Tyler (Cowen), July 3 [episode]
  • Cited in Ben Domenech, ‘Voters Are Fed Up With Big Tech Monopolies Trying To Run Their Lives,’ The Federalist, June 28
  • ‘Who will resist the great awokening?,’ Unherd, June 28
  • Spoke at Mirabaud Asset Management, London, June 27
  • Spoke on panel on ‘Politically Incorrect: a conversation on prosperity, mobility and identity,’ World Bank, Washington, June 24
  • Spoke on ‘Majority Identity under Threat? Immigration, Assimilation and Populism,’ World Bank, Washington, June 24
  • ‘Leavers may prefer Salvini’s Fortress Europe to Boris’s Global Britain‘, The UK in a Changing Europe blog, June 24
  • Cited in Alex Burns, ‘Biden Has Not Changed. The Politics, Culture and Mood of his Party Have, New York Times, June 22
  • Spoke at Henry Jackson Society, ‘The Decline of the German Political Establishment‘, House of Commons, June 17
  • Cited in Zack Beauchamp, ‘Democrats Don’t Need to Tack Right on Immigration to Win,’ Vox, June 17
  • On David Pakman Show (YouTube), June 16
  • Spoke at Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (London, UK), 12 June
  • Cited in Conor Friersdorf, ‘A Once Unthinkable Proposal for Refugee Camps,’ Atlantic, June 12
  • Cited in Thomas Edsall, ‘The Meritocracy is Under Siege,‘ New York Times, June 12
  • Spoke at York Festival of Ideas, June 6
  • ‘Just how English is London?’, Unherd, June 5
  • On Buck Johnson Death to Tyrants podcast [episode], June 3
  • ‘Society will become conservative and sex will go back to procreation rather than recreation,’ Metro, 31 May
  • Guest on Quillette Podcast ‘35 – Eric Kaufmann and Sunder Katwala Discuss the European Election Results,’ May 28
  • ‘Archie Windsor isn’t the Symbol You Think He Is,‘ Foreign Policy, May 28
  • Spoke at HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, Hay-on-Wye, May 25 clip
  • Spoke at Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, 21 May
  • Debate Interview, Bjarne Norum, ‘Professor: White, Christian identity wins in Europe,’ Kristeligt Dagblad (Norway), May 21
  • Cited in Russ Crespolini, ‘Conversations On Race Draws First-Timers To Discussion,’ Patch, May 21
  • ‘The Trial of Danny Baker,’ Unherd, 20 May
  • Spoke at Ditchley Park Conference, ‘The rise of populism: a crisis of democracy or noisy renewal?,’ May 16-18
  • ‘Eric Kaufmann and Razia Iqbal on the End of White Majorities,’ Intelligence Squared podcast, May 16
  • Cited in Michael Barone, ‘Will ‘whiteshift’ save America from ethnic strife? ,’ Washington Examiner, May 15
  • Cited in Gregory Melluish, ‘We’re not seeing a ‘populist surge’ in this election. Why not?,’ The Conversation, 14 May
  • Cited in Marc-Andre Sabourin, ‘Le problème des Blancs,’ L’Actualité (Quebec), 8 May
  • Cited in ‘Academics defend race row scholar Noah Carl,’ Times, 2 May
  • Spoke at Department for International Trade (London, UK), 2 May
  • Mention in Trevor Phillips, ‘Dear Baby Sussex‘, Daily Mail
  • ‘How the woke inquisition broke Cambridge,‘ Unherd, May 1
  • Interviewed as Isaac Chotiner, ‘A Political Scientist Defends White Identity Politics,’ The New Yorker, Apr 30, 2019
  • Spoke on ‘Whiteshift: the Decline of White Majorities and the rise of National Populism,’ London School of Economics, Department of Government (Cumberland Lodge retreat), Apr 27
  • On ‘Whiteshift and the West‘, American Interest podcast, Apr 24
  • ‘The Contradiction at the Heart of Identity Politics,’ The American Mind (Claremont Institute), Apr 22
  • Featured in Robert Verbruggen, ‘Fear of a Nonwhite America,’ National Review, Apr 17
  • Review of Whiteshift in Kirkus Reviews, Apr 15
  • On Ezra Klein Show, ‘In defense of white backlash politics,’ Apr 15, 2019
  • Review of Whiteshift and Goodwin & Eatwell’s National Populism in London Review of Books, Apr 11-18
  • Mention in ‘Populism and identity crisis in the West‘, The Nation (e-paper), Apr 15
  • Featured in Megan McArdle, ‘Irish cultural pride gives this cosmpolitan second thoughts,’ Washington Post, Apr 12, also as ‘When a cosmopolitan is confronted by cultural pride,’ Everett Herald, Apr 14
  • Mention in ‘‘‘No Platforming’ At Bristol University In The 1980s And Now‘, Hatful of History,  Apr 13
  • Referenced in Andrew Sullivan, ‘The Opportunity of White Anxiety,’ New York Magazine Intelligencer, Apr 12
  • Featured in Megan McArdle, ‘Brexiteers are just like Trumpists – except on this,’ Washington Post, also in Deseret News, Apr 9
  • Featured in Bernard Lane, ‘White Fright: the Future of the West’s white majorities,’ The Australian, April 6. Also in same series: ‘Left losing migrant high ground‘, ‘Whites find their knight‘, ‘the last post‘, ‘we should celebrate the coming of a mixed race of human beings‘, ‘criticism of migration repressed‘ (to Apr 12)
  • Featured in Bernard Lane, ‘White Fright: Future Hopes,’ The Australian, April 5
  • “Saying you’re proud of your white color isn’t bad”, NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands), April 5
  • Reference in ‘Bristol university students walk out of lecture in protest of speaker,’ Bristol Post, April 5
  • Coverage in George Yancey, ‘A Healthy White Racial Identity,’ Patheos, April 4
  • ‘Whiteshift: Identity Politics in an Era of Demographic Change,’ review by Theodore Kupfer, National Review, April 4
  • My new article, ‘Ethno-traditional nationalism and the challenge of immigration,’ Nations and Nationalism, Apr 4
  • My article with Andrea Ballatore, ‘New York Yankees and Hollywood Anglos: the persistence of anglo-conformity in the American motion picture industry’, Nations and Nationalism, April 4
  • Chair/introduction to Paul Morland – The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World (John Murray 2019) podcast
  • Review of Whiteshift, by Simon Tormey, Australian Book Review, April
  • Interview on Todd Lewis Praise of Folly Youtube show (audio quality an issue in parts), 1 April
  • Mention in Doug Todd, ‘Journey to the heart of a European West Coast,’ Vancouver Sun, Mar 28
  • On Science of Politics (Niskanen Center) podcast, ‘Is White Identity Causing an Immigration Backlash‘ (with Ashley Jardina, hosted by Matt Grossmann), March 27
  • Mention in Neil Munro, ‘New York Times Op-Ed: Progressives Claim Racism to Grab Power in 2020‘, Breitbart, Mar 25
  • Mention in John Rolfe, ‘Local groups unite to fight hate,’ Poughkeepsie Journal, Mar 25
  • Review of Whiteshift by Paul Delany in Los Angeles Review of Books, March 24
  • Mention by David Quinn in ‘We must turn tide against our naivety on Europe,’ Times, Mar 24
  • Mention in Alex Leo, ‘Quillette, Ben Shapiro, and the Myth of Conservative ‘Facts’ ‘, Daily Beast, Mar 22
  • Spoke on panel for launch of Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson, Empty Planet, London, 21 Mar
  • Cited in Matt Kwong, ‘Despite Trump’s view, white nationalism is a growing threat, data shows,’ CBC News, March 19
  • My Op-Ed ‘Americans Are Divided by Their Views on Race, Not Race Itself,‘ New York Times, March 18, 2019
  • Mention in Clive Davis, ‘Radio review: Archive on 4: I’m Only Joking / The Integration Conversation / David Mellor‘, Times, 15 Mar
  • Cited in Lucinda Platt, ‘What does it mean to be British? And who defines it?,’ LSE British Politics and Policy blog, 11 Mar
  • ‘The Integration Conversation – Beyond ‘Whiteshift’’. In Conversation with Trevor Phillips, Policy Exchange/Integration Hub, 7 March podcast
  • ‘When the racist weapon becomes unusable,’ article in Kvartal (Quarter), Sweden, 7 March. With knock-on coverage here and here
  • Cited in Paul Morland, ‘What’s the future of demographic history?,’ The Article, 7 March
  • Mention of Whiteshift in Robert Wright-Conor Friersdorf discussion, Bloggingheads TV, Mar 6, from 4:15
  • Spoke at Oxford Brookes University, 6 March
  • Review of Whiteshift in Liberales, Belgium, 5 March
  • Spoke at panel on ‘What does it mean to be British?‘, London School of Economics (LSE) Festival, London, 3 March podcast
  • Cited in Tom Wheeldon, ‘Despite Trump’s ‘wall’ fixation, Latino immigration to US has plummeted,’ France 24, Mar. 3
  • ‘A Different Way to Think About White Identity Politics,’ review of book in New York Magazine by Park Macdougald, Mar. 1
  • Spoke at University College London (UCL) Constitution Unit, London, 28 February podcast slides
  • On panel on Liberalism at student event, Wimbledon High School
  • “Whiteshift: why white demographic decline will fracture western politics in the twenty-first century,” University of Kent public lecture, 27 February 2019 slides
  • Cited in Zack Beauchamp, ‘The New Reactionaries,’ Vox, Feb. 26
  • ‘The Takeover of the American Mind,’ Spiked, Feb. 22
  • ‘We Need to Talk about White Identity Politics,’ Tablet, Feb 19
  • Cited in Roy MacGregor, ‘How hockey unites us in a time of division,’ Globe and Mail, Feb. 15, 2019
  • On ‘Populism and the Future of White Majorities,’ The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TV Ontario, Feb. 14, 2019
  • Cited in Doug Todd, ‘Why Populism hasn’t come to (English) Canada. Yet,’ Vancouver Sun, Feb. 14
  • In conversation with Trevor Phillips, Policy Exchange, London, Feb. 13 [podcast]
  • Cited in Margaret Wente, ‘Can Canada avoid a populist revolt?‘, Globe and Mail, Feb 8, 2019
  • “How ‘Asymmetrical Multiculturalism’ Generates Populist Blowback,” National Review, Feb. 6
  • Cited in Zack Beauchamp, ‘Trump’s 2019 State of the Union was an ode to an imaginary America,‘ Vox, Feb 6
  • Reviewed in Joan C. Williams, ‘Metro vs Retro: The rise of divisiveness in modern politics,’ Times Literary Supplement, Feb 5
  • Cited in Asle Toje, ‘Whiteshift: how immigration creates white identity politics,’ Minerva, Feb 1
  • Mention in ‘Prof: White people could retreat into a ‘1950s-style simulation’ to avoid diversity,’ College Fix, Jan. 30
  • Mention in Jasper Hamill, ‘Will racist white people ‘exit into a 1950s-style simulation’ to avoid diversity?,’ Metro, 30 Jan
  • Review and excerpts from Whiteshift in Tyler Cowen’s Marginal Revolution, Jan 28-29, 2019
  • ‘The demography of religion in London,’ at ‘De-secularisation of the City’ conference, King’s College, London, 25 Jan
  • Spoke at Housing, Communities and Local Government seminar, London, 23 Jan
  • Review (French), by Philip Wood, ‘The whites, soon majority minority,’ Le Point, 21 January
  • Review (German) by Ronald Asch, ‘White Majority in the West in Decline?, Tichys-Einblick, 14 Jan
  • Mention in Denise Bombardier, ‘Le Declin des blancs,’ Journal de Montreal, 11 Jan
  • Mention in Scott McConnell, ‘The Immigrants Challenging Europe’s Code of Silence on Islam,’ American Conservative, 11 Jan
  • Biographical interview on Whiteshift by Keiko Iizuka, Yomiuri Shinbun (Japan), 9 Jan link
  • Interview on Whiteshift by Thomas Mahler, Le déclin de la majorité blanche va renforcer les populismes, Le Point, 6 Jan
  • ‘Political scientist Eric Kaufmann: ‘White people may also be attached to their own group‘, interview in Dutch newspaper de Volksrant, by Peter Giesen, 4 Jan
  • Review of the book alongside discussion of immigration and integration by Svend Dahl in Goteborg Posten newspaper, Sweden, 3 Jan 2019

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Background

In 2014, Eric completed an ESRC project, Diversity and the White Working Class in England. The project involved a partnership with the think tank Demos, and its Politics of Demography project. Work on related concerns continues as part of the Demography, Integration and Immigration group at the think tank Policy Exchange.

Eric’s recent books have focused on political demography – the politics of population change. He  has a continuing interest in national identity and questions of dominant-group ethnic identity, as well as religious fundamentalism. His most recent trade press book, Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth argued that the more religious people are, regardless of income, faith tradition or education, the more children they have. Religious countries have faster population growth than secular ones which is why immigrants are typically much more religious than their secular host societies. The cumulative effect of immigration and religious fertility is to slow or reverse the secularisation process in the West.