Ep. 1272: Doug Stokes Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

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4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Doug Stokes, a British academic who is Professor in International Security and Strategy in the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter, and a Senior Adviser at the Legatum Institute. His areas of research specialism include American foreign policy, geopolitics and the culture wars. Doug acted as the Director of Exeter University's Strategy and Security Institute and was a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) for over a decade.

The topic is his book Against Decolonisation: Campus Culture Wars and the Decline of the West.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and culture wars
Philosophical roots of DEI
Social constructivism and postmodernism
Meritocracy vs DEI ideology
Racism and differential outcomes
Civilizational competition and bureaucratic capture

Jump in!

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Cobell.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.2	That's my passion.
0:33.5	My guest today is a professor.
0:35.3	His name is Doug Stokes.
0:36.9	His book Against Decolonization,
0:40.1	Campus Culture Wars, and the Decline of the West. Right in my wheelhouse, my kind of guy.
0:48.3	I got to tell you, this is one of these conversations you want to go read Because Doug is using an efficiency of words to describe such
1:00.4	complex crap in society, and he does it in a brilliant way. Without any further delay from me,
1:08.2	let's jump right in. Talk these culture wars with Doug Stokes. I hope you
1:13.2	enjoy. I'm going to go straight to the deep end, Doug, which is as I survey the landscape, and I'll use DEI as a shorthand for all of
1:30.6	this insanity that's unfolding, I'll take a piece of language from you when you start to talk
1:37.1	about the civilizational logic. I guess that's where I'm at. What is the civilizational logic
1:43.5	as we continue down this rabbit
1:45.0	hole? Because at some stage of the game, the people that are being penalized by the DEI,
1:51.0	which I would probably argue often are the producers. At some stage, they say, and this might
1:55.9	sound like an old Ein Rand trope, but at some stage, they might just say, you know what,
2:00.2	Galtz Galtz Galtz
2:00.9	gulch sounds better than this. It seems like the civilizational logic is the point where we're at.
2:06.3	Yeah, I think so. I think that where a lot of this DEI comes from is it comes from
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