Eric Kaufmann

Eric’s most recent 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.

Download my book The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America HERE.

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

Sign up to Eric Kaufmann’s podcast feed, a collection of lectures and talks featuring Eric as speaker or moderator [iTunes] [soundcloud version]

Latest Articles, Appearances and News

Upcoming 

Previous

• • On Amanda Vanstone show, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), May 25 [episode]
  • ‘Immigration figures spell electoral trouble for Rishi Sunak,’ Unherd, May 25
  • Cited in ‘Tennessee Gov. Signs Bill Protecting Teachers from Forced Gender Ideology, Leading Research Offers Strong Support,’ Daily Citizen, May 22
  • ‘Eric Kaufmann: The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill is a triumphant pushback against illiberalism,’ Conservative Home, May 22
  • Spoke at Canadian Society for Academic Freedom (SAFS), London, ON (virtual), May 19
  • ‘NatCon can be the start of the fightback against the anti-British cultural Left,’ Telegraph, May 18
  • ‘In Defense of Particularistic Nationalism,’ at National Conservatism conference, London, May 16
  • ‘National conservatives versus anti-authoritarian populists,’ Unherd, May 15
  • ‘Why I am a Liberal Conservative,’ The Critic, May 13
  • Report cited in Jonathan Chait, ‘The Republican Takeover of American Education,’ New York Magazine Intelligencer, May 8
  • ‘Diversity for Thee—But Not for Me,’ City-Journal, May 4
  • ‘Universities are losing the battle on free speech,’ Unherd, May 2
  • Co-authored FIRE report cited in ‘These universities are pushing back on censorious students. Finally.‘ Washington Post, April 29
  • ‘Almost 6 in 10 Britons feel politically homeless,’ Unherd, April 28
  • Cited in Dan Hannan, ‘Wokery Colonizes Egypt,’ Washington Examiner, April 24
  • Cited in Phil Boas, ‘How the next 3 weeks at the U.S.-Mexico border could shape the 2024 election,’ azcentral, April 24
  • Cited in Geoff Shullenberger, ‘The GOP is fighting the wrong culture war,‘ Unherd, April 21
  • On Manhattan Insights webcast, with Reihan Salam, discussing ‘The New Ethnic Politics,’ April 19
  • ‘From National Review to National Conservatism,’ Law and Liberty, April 13
  • ‘Abortion is a big vote-loser for Republicans,’ Unherd, April 12
  • ‘We’re in a Cultural Emergency,’ on NTD.tv British Thought Leaders, April 11
  • Cited in Katherine Dee, ‘Is trans trending downward?,’ Spectator, April 9
  • Cited in Wilfred Reilly, ‘Americans Are Convinced That Race Relations Are Bad. The Data Says the Opposite,’ Newsweek, April 10
  • Cited in Tara MacIsaac, ‘Breakdown of Society Evident in Vancouver Stabbing Where Bystanders Did Nothing: Experts,’ Epoch Times, April 5
  • On the Saad Truth show with Gad Saad, April 3, 2023 [episode]
  • ‘Don’t Blame Conservatives for the Culture Wars,’ Unherd, March 24
  • ‘White flight from immigration?: Attitudes to diversity and white residential choice,’ Social Science Quarterly, March 28
  • On New Flesh podcast, ‘CRT in Schools,’ March 26 [episode]
  • Cited in Gus Carter, ‘Sexual politics is damaging young men,’ Spectator, Mar 18
  • ‘Does Britain Face a Permanent Left-Wing Future? Youth No Longer Become Right Wing with Age,’ on Deprogrammed with Poppy Coburn and Harrison Pitt (New Culture Forum), Mar 16
  • Spoke on ‘Why are Students so left wing’ panel, at Wonkhe ‘Secret Life of Students’ 2023 conference
  • ‘Could Small Boats Decide the Next Election,’ Unherd, Mar 13
  • On Ricochet podcast with Andrew Gutmann and Beth Feeley, ‘Proof CRT/Social Justice Ideology is Rampant in America’s Schools,’ Mar 11, 2023
  • Cited in Dominic Green, ‘American Jews: Now you see them, now you don’t,’ Jewish Chronicle, Mar 9, 2023
  • Cited in Wenyan Wu, ‘In the Face of Indoctrination: Fight, Not Flight,’ Minding the Campus, Mar 7
  • On Chicago’s Morning Answer with Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson, March 7 clip
  • ‘Trading Places: Asian Americans are becoming more liberal as they enter the elite, while downwardly mobile Jews are moving to the right,’ Tablet, Mar 3, 2023
  • Cited in ‘Study contradicts claims critical race theory isn’t in schools, over 90% students exposed to it,’ Fox News, Mar 3, 2023
  • ‘Even Republican and Private School Kids Are Being Taught CRT, Our Research Finds,’ Newsweek, Mar 1, 2023
  • With Nate Honeycutt and Sean Stevens, ‘The Academic Mind in 2022: What Faculty Think About Free Expression and Academic Freedom on Campus,’ FIRE, Feb 28, 2023
  • Cited in Nate Hochman, ‘The Indoctrination in Public Schools Is Working,’ National Review, Feb 23, 2023
  • Cited in Jeff Zymeri, ‘Social-Justice Curricula Having Measurable Impact on Students, Study Finds,’ National Review, Feb 23, 2023
  • Cited in ‘Impact of Critical Social Justice Ideology in Education,’ Real Clear Politics, Feb 23, 2023
  • With Zach Goldberg, ‘School Choice Is Not Enough: The Impact of Critical Social Justice Ideology in American Education,’ Manhattan Institute, Feb 23, 2023
  • Spoke on ‘Awokening: the Rise and Rise of Cultural Socialism,’ at conference on Woke, Engelsberg Ironworks, Feb 23
  • ‘Why Ethnic Minorities and Young People are more Conspiracy-Minded,’ Unherd, Feb 16
  • ‘Ron DeSantis is the Future of Conservatism,’ Telegraph, Feb 5
  • Cited in Owen Evans, ‘New Union Takes on ‘Indoctrination’ of Scottish Education System,’ Epoch Times, Feb 3
  • Cited in Zach Goldberg, ‘The Rise of College-Educated Democrats,’ Manhattan Institute, Feb 2
  • Cited in Andrew McCarthy, ‘Data Don’t Support Left’s Narrative of Racist, Brutal Cops,’ National Review, Feb 1
  • On Full Measure, with Sharyl Atkisson, discussing cultural socialism, Jan 23 [clip]
  • On Captainese podcast, ‘When the woke culture takes over,’ Jan 18, 2023 [clip]
  • Cited in Owen Evans, ‘Half of British Universities Push ‘Radical Progressive’ Ideas: Report,’ Epoch Times, Jan 17, 2023
  • Cited in Samuel Kronen, ‘American Paradoxes,’ City-Journal, Jan 16, 2023
  • Cited in Lauren Smith, ‘We need a parents’ revolt against woke indoctrination,’ Spiked, Jan 2, 2023
  • Cited in Omid Ghoreishi, ‘How Ideology Is Becoming Ever More Entrenched in Canadian Government Lingo,’ Epoch Times, Dec 28
  • ‘Woke Canada is Britain’s future if the Conservatives ignore the culture wars,’ Off-Script (Telegraph) podcast with Steve Edginton, Dec 16
  • Cited in Margaret Peppiatt, ‘Almost 40 percent of students identify as LGBTQ at liberal arts colleges: survey,’ College Fix, Dec 16
  • Cited in Allister Heath, ‘Harry & Meghan’s Netflix ‘documentary’ is an egregious betrayal,’ Telegraph, Dec 14
  • Cited in Alex Story, ‘Why are we teaching our kids the awful Critical Race Theory?,’ Express, Dec 12
  • Cited in Andrew Brown, ‘Press: FT’s data guy takes issue with Farage and co.,‘ Church Times, Dec 9
  • Cited in Owen Evans, ‘British Education Secretary Says White Privilege Is Not a ‘Fact’,’ Epoch Times, Dec 8
  • Cited in Aaron Bastani, ‘No, School Isn’t Making Kids ‘Woke’,‘ Novara Media, Dec 8
  • Policy Exchange report cited by Miriam Cates MP in Education Select Committee, Dec 7
  • ‘Conservatives must use governmental powers‘, Ivar Arpi podcast, Dec 5
  • Spoke to Don’t Divide Us on Policy Exchange UK Culture Wars reports, Dec 5
  • ‘Matt Goodwin and Eric Kaufmann on Britain’s Culture Wars,’ Matt Goodwin Substack, Dec 5
  • ‘ Identity not Culture: Where Ethnic Majorities are Disadvantaged’ in Koopmans, R. and L. Orgad, Majorities, Minorities and the Future of Nationhood, Cambridge University Press 2022, pp. 62-86
  • Discussant on Oxford University panel on ‘Majorities, Minorities and the Future of Nationhood’ (book edited by Liav Orgad and Ruud Koopmans, to which I contributed a chapter), Blavatnik School of Government, Dec 1
  • ‘Ethnic minorities are keeping Britain Christian,’ Unherd, Nov 30, 2022
  • On Atlas Society Asks podcast, Nov 30
  • On Noah’s Newsletter podcast, ‘Where did Wokeness Come From?,’ Nov 30
  • Cited by Richard Cunliffe, ‘The Tories’ unpopularity among the young isn’t a woke conspiracy,‘ New Statesman, Nov 29
  • Discussant on Nicola de Jager, ‘The return to history? The erosion of liberal democracy and the rise of new totalitarianism​​​​​​​​,’ Midpoint seminar, sponsored by Konrad Adenauer Siftung, Nov 29
  • On Bev Turner Show, GB News, Nov 28 [clip]
  • On Free Speech Nation, with Andrew Doyle, Nov 27 [clip]
  • On Laurence Fox Show, Nov 27 [clip]
  • On Esther and Phil, GB News, Nov 25 [clip, from 1:36:31]
  • ‘School indoctrination is turning British youth woke – and Tories remain silent,’ Telegraph, Nov 26
  • ‘No, the public has not warmed to immigration,’ Unherd, Nov 24
  • Cited in Madeline Grant, ‘The chilling reason why the young reject free speech,’ Telegraph, Nov 23
  • Cited in Joanna Williams, ‘Critical race theory is being taught as fact,‘ Spiked, Nov 22
  • Cited in ‘One-quarter of students at elite universities are LGBT. What does that say about America’s future? ,’ Mercator.net, Nov 21
  • ‘Report: Critical Race Theory is endemic in British schools,’ Unherd, Nov 21
  • Reports cited in James Beal, ‘Nearly half of young people believe Britain is structurally racist,’ Times, Nov 21
  • Reports cited in Will Hazell, ‘Britain was founded on racism, say almost half of young people in poll,’ Telegraph, Nov 20; also cited in Mail, Nov 20
  • cited in ‘Woke schools trigger calls for Government to enforce ‘impartiality‘,’ Express, Nov 19
  • ‘The Political Culture of Young Britain,’ Policy Exchange, Nov 19
  • ‘The Politics of the Culture Wars in Contemporary Britain,’ Policy Exchange, Nov 19
  • Cited in Melissa Rossi, ‘Rising tide of immigration to Europe pushing continent’s politics to the right, experts say,’ Yahoo News, Nov 19
  • Spoke at University of Southern California, Political Science Department, Nov 9
  • Spoke at Academic Freedom Conference, Stanford University, Nov 4 event recording

For Older Events, click here

Background

Eric’s recent books have focused on the way national identity intersects with political demography – the politics of population change – and ideology. He has a continuing interest in questions of cultural left ideology, dominant-group ethnic identity and religious demography. His most recent trade press book, Whiteshift, argues that ethnic change underlies national populism and polarization and will not abate without a decline of diversity through ethnic assimilation. His previous book, Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth, argues 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.