Lean Out with Tara Henley
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Cancelled: A Canadian Professor’s War on 'Woke'
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Cancelled: A Canadian Professor’s War on 'Woke'

My interview with Eric Kaufmann - professor of politics at the University of Buckingham - on the identitarian left and free speech on campus
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Earlier this month, a prominent Canadian academic made headlines when he announced his departure from the University of London. “Progressive conformity and cancel culture are distorting the teaching and research mission of universities,” he wrote on Twitter. “Between the extremely controversial and the progressive-controlled monoculture of academia is a vast and growing zone of unspoken truth.”

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Eric Kaufmann is an author and a professor of politics at the University of Buckingham, where he is set to establish the Centre for Heterodox Social Science. In January, he’ll launch a new, low-cost online public course titled “Woke: the Origins, Dynamics and Implications of an Elite Ideology.”

Eric Kaufmann is my guest, today on Lean Out. Transcript to come for paid subscribers.

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Lean Out with Tara Henley
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