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The Good Fight

Eric Kaufmann on “The Third Awokening”

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.6907 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Yascha Mounk and Eric Kaufmann also discuss "asymmetrical multiculturalism" and the global fertility crisis. Eric Kaufmann is a professor of Politics at the University of Buckingham, where he directs the Centre for Heterodox Social Science. Kaufmann is the author of The Third Awokening (entitled Taboo in the UK), Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities, and Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Eric Kaufmann discuss why much of mainstream liberalism has become unmoored from its classical principles; how we can push back against identitarianism and move towards a non-zero-sum framework for interethnic relations; and whether (and how) humanity might reverse the global decline in fertility. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected]  Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Leonora Barclay Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We're not just worried about harms, but we're worried about emotional harms. And we're worried about microaggressions and things that are very, very small. And we're worried about emotional harms and we're worried about microaggressions and things

0:39.9

that are very, very small and we're assuming fragility.

0:42.4

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

0:51.4

My guest today is Eric Kaufman.

0:54.6

Eric is the author of a number of interesting books, including most recently The Third Awakening,

1:01.0

as well as Whitechift, and Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?

1:05.4

We talked about the nature of the new identitarian ideology that now dominates parts of the left and the mainstream.

1:16.1

We have some interesting disagreements about whether this is a liberal ideology that stands

1:22.2

an explicit contrast to the liberal tradition, whether it is, in a sense, a wrong departure

1:27.2

within the liberal tradition itself. And it is, in a sense, a wrong departure within the liberal

1:28.5

tradition itself. And that also leads us to some interesting disagreements about how those

1:34.0

of us who worry about these ideas can stand up against them. In which ways and to what extent

1:39.4

it is possible for electoral majorities to push back against these ideas without themselves

1:46.0

running danger of becoming illiberal.

1:50.0

We also had a really interesting conversation about demography, thinking about the global

1:57.3

crisis of depopulation that is rapidly accelerating and asking whether small,

2:06.5

rapidly growing, deeply religious groups are set to become a majority of the United States,

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