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Eric Kaufmann

Eric Kaufmann

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Oct 20, 2026

speaker_3HOST
40:04
OK, let's get into it.
speaker_3HOST
40:06
Moreland references a seminal book by his supervisor, Eric Kaufman, titled Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?
speaker_2HOST
40:12
Right.
speaker_3HOST
40:13
Kaufman poses a brutally blunt thesis.
BrianHOST
84:02
All right.
BrianHOST
84:03
So, Professor Eric Kaufman, director of the Center for Heterodox Social Science, analyzed large-scale U.S. surveys and found that identification as non-binary or genderqueer, neither male or female, among young, educated Americans peaked around 2023 and has since entered a sharp decline he described as freefall.
BrianHOST
84:28
Drawing primarily on the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expressions annual survey of roughly 50,000 to 68,000 undergraduates, the share of students identifying as gender other than male or female fell from about 6.8% in 2023 to 3.6%, so about half.
BrianHOST
84:47
in 2025, roughly a halving in two years.
Bret StephensGUEST
16:37
So we are kind of fighting a shadow that is much larger than the body itself.
Bret StephensGUEST
16:44
Eric Kaufman in this issue of Sapir has a fantastic essay that has the genius title, They Might Not Be Giants.
David WolpeHOST
16:54
I
Bret StephensGUEST
16:54
wonder who chose that title.
John StonestreetHOST
0:51
After astonishing growth in the last few decades, the number of young people who identify as LGBT is now in steep decline.
John StonestreetHOST
1:00
For example, trans identification, according to professor and author Eric Kaufman, is in free fall, and non-conforming sexual identity is also in sharp decline.
John StonestreetHOST
1:10
Last year, his report on the student body survey from the exclusive Phillips Academy Andover found a drop from over nine percent non-binary in 2023 to three percent in 2025.
John StonestreetHOST
1:23
His report, of course, was quickly and loudly condemned as being flawed.
Steve TurleyHOST
4:46
Whatever one thinks of the reforms, no democracy is obligated to treat their consequences as irreversible.
Steve TurleyHOST
4:53
And so this is where scholars like political scientist Eric Kaufman have shown that that wherever you have rapid demographic change, you have a mass public backlash against that mass immigration.
Steve TurleyHOST
5:07
We found that here, for example, back in 2016, Donald Trump got his highest vote share from counties that experienced the most dramatic demographic disruption over the past decade.
Steve TurleyHOST
5:20
Again, this wasn't what liberal globalists thought it would be.
JasonHOST
0:02
All right, Eric Kaufmann, welcome to the show.
JasonHOST
0:04
Who are you, where are you, and tell us a little bit about yourself.
JasonHOST
0:09
The red carpet is yours.
Eric KaufmannGUEST
0:12
Thanks, Jason.
Eric KaufmannGUEST
0:13
Yeah, good to be here.
Eric KaufmannGUEST
0:14
I'm Eric Kaufmann.
Eric KaufmannGUEST
0:15
I'm a professor of politics in Britain, even though I'm Canadian originally, but I teach at the University of Buckingham.
Eric KaufmannGUEST
0:23
I'm the author of a book called The Third Awakening, and I I have a new research center that focuses on what we might call politically incorrect social science.
Jonathan ShuttlesworthHOST
20:37
What study shows the strongest decline? And tell me the data.
speaker_5UNKNOWN
20:44
The strongest decline comes from Eric Kaufman's October 2025 report, The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity Among Young Americans, from the Center for Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham.
speaker_5UNKNOWN
20:56
He analyzed the FIRE campus surveys, roughly 68,000 undergraduates across more than 250 colleges.
speaker_5UNKNOWN
21:02
The headline numbers, students identifying as a gender other than male or female, peaked at 6.8% in 2022 and 2023, then fell to 3.6% in 2025. effectively halved in two years.
Jeremy KyleHOST
19:46
But you and I know, Matty, that that is far from the truth.
Jeremy KyleHOST
19:51
Is it frustrating that you've got this leader who's dragged this party up, but that that isn't really, if we're honest, showing in party numbers? Is that frustrating or does it just tell you and your colleagues we just carry on the fight?
Matt VickersGUEST
20:06
Do you know what? These things take a lot of time.
Matt VickersGUEST
20:08
There are lots of mistakes made by the previous government.
HarryHOST
54:54
I'd just like to hear him go, well, she ain't from Manchester and that's enough for me.
Nick DixonHOST
55:00
And Eric Kaufman, serious people like Eric Kaufman, serious scholar is saying we've got to have a more serious debate on this and he wants to see that from these politicians.
Eric KaufmannSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
55:07
I do think I would really like reform or other politicians to be able to be a bit more nuanced in what they're saying, like to say, Yeah, I mean in terms of English national identity, you know, it is something you don't have to be white to be English by nationality.
Eric KaufmannSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
55:31
But it matters considerably that the ethnic composition of the country is changing rapidly.
Nick DixonHOST
59:49
So I wanted to add that just in case anyone said that.
HarryHOST
59:52
Duchenne is great and just to highlight I have interviewed him at the end of last year it's available on the website on the lotositis.com YouTube channel as well so you should watch that if you haven't he's a really really fascinating guy.
Nick DixonHOST
60:03
There you go and so that's that's it just will reform take on this new potential ground that the Tories have opened up by being total lib dem wets or will they not because they'll get called evil and racist or will they have we'll come up with a serious debate like Eric Kaufman wants or do we just have to rely on smears so that's my bit.
HarryHOST
60:18
Alright then, got a few Rumble rants, quickly go through a couple and then we'll get to Stelios.
Steve TurleyHOST
73:08
Even although the, the, uh, the kids are not technically white like in the, you know, the old European sense, but they're culturally white in that sense.
Steve TurleyHOST
73:20
So if that's where you're going, if it's, it's known as the Beijing, um, of, uh, of America, there's been a lot of, uh, research on that by Eric Kaufmann called White Shift.
Steve TurleyHOST
73:31
It's like a 800-page, uh, book, I've actually got it back there, um, on, uh, on precisely these trends.
Steve TurleyHOST
73:40
Um, but we're not seeing a lot of intermarriage with, uh, uh, with Blacks.

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