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Sep 5, 2026
Robert EvansHOST
Rufo has repeatedly promoted race-science-focused online magazine, Aporia, and appeared on its podcast in 2023.
Robert EvansHOST
Research by the anti-fascist organization Hope Not Hate identifies Emporia as the public-facing arm of the Human Diversity Foundation, or HDF, a Wyoming-registered company created as the successor to the Pioneer Fund, the American eugenics organization established in 1937.
Robert EvansHOST
Byline Times reports that Rufo and HDF also shared a funder.
Robert EvansHOST
Tech entrepreneur Andrew Conru invested $1.3 million in HDF, while his foundation gave $25,000 to Rufo's documentary foundation in 2021.
18 MINS LATER
Robert EvansHOST
In March of 2026, Attenborough, now at CAF, intervened on Kofnes' behalf again, urging Ghent University to resist demands that his appointment be rescinded.
Robert EvansHOST
Kofnes had been recruited to Ghent by Bouc Devry, whose own work on intelligence and dysgenic fertility draws extensively on hereditarian researchers.
Robert EvansHOST
In 2024, Devry also attended the London Conference on Intelligence alongside Human Diversity Foundation co-founder Emile Kierkegaard.
Robert EvansHOST
DeVry had already sought university funding to bring Kofnis to Ghent for a lecture in February of 2024, just days after Kofnis published A Guide for Hereditarian Revolution, before later hiring him as a postdoctoral researcher on his Liberalism's Fertility Problem project.
Jack GrahamHOST
There's this circle of people around what is now called the Human...
Jack GrahamHOST
Well, no, it's not now called the Human Diversity Foundation.
Jack GrahamHOST
It is now apparently called... polygenetic scores or polygenic scores or something it's a
Daniel HarperHOST
real sign
Jack GrahamHOST
of
Daniel HarperHOST
a of a
Jack GrahamHOST
legit organization with nothing to hide that it has to keep changing its name isn't it it's gone from the the pioneer fund to the human diversity foundation and it's now called something else um and it's i mean it it was founded in 1937 in america as essentially a nazi race science yeah absolutely institute And it has an online publication called Aporia and a couple of other outlets connected to it.
Jack GrahamHOST
There's a podcast called The Jolly Heretic Podcast.
Robert EvansHOST
Rufo has repeatedly promoted race-science-focused online magazine, Aporia, and appeared on its podcast in 2023.
Robert EvansHOST
Research by the anti-fascist organization Hope Not Hate identifies Emporia as the public-facing arm of the Human Diversity Foundation, or HDF, a Wyoming-registered company created as the successor to the Pioneer Fund, the American eugenics organization established in 1937.
Robert EvansHOST
Byline Times reports that Rufo and HDF also shared a funder.
Robert EvansHOST
Tech entrepreneur Andrew Conru invested $1.3 million in HDF, while his foundation gave $25,000 to Rufo's documentary foundation in 2021.
21 MINS LATER
Robert EvansHOST
In March of 2026, Attenborough, now at CAF, intervened on Kofnes' behalf again, urging Ghent University to resist demands that his appointment be rescinded.
Robert EvansHOST
Kofnes had been recruited to Ghent by Bouc Devry, whose own work on intelligence and dysgenic fertility draws extensively on hereditarian researchers.
Robert EvansHOST
In 2024, Devry also attended the London Conference on Intelligence alongside Human Diversity Foundation co-founder Emile Kierkegaard.
Robert EvansHOST
DeVry had already sought university funding to bring Kofnis to Ghent for a lecture in February of 2024, just days after Kofnis published A Guide for Hereditarian Revolution, before later hiring him as a postdoctoral researcher on his Liberalism's Fertility Problem project.
Josh BoermanHOST
One of the big things that happened once we put out the episode was we had quite a few of you reach out to us.
Josh BoermanHOST
to talk a bit more actually about the Human Diversity Foundation, as well as some of the things connected to Nathan Kofness and his whole deal.
Josh BoermanHOST
So we're going to be talking a bit about that.
Josh BoermanHOST
And of course, we are going to be reading your mail, as always, from the world famous mailbag.
8 MINS LATER
Josh BoermanHOST
And then June, if you want to read the second one.
Josh BoermanHOST
Yeah, that sounds good.
Josh BoermanHOST
But this first one's called Human Diversity Foundation Episode Slash Malcolm Collins.
Josh BoermanHOST
And it's from Lisa, who says, Hey, just listen to your episode.
Molly CongerHOST
The investigation into Carl's work was prompted by a petition signed by more than 500 academics who were concerned that Carl's ethically suspect and methodologically flawed work was racist pseudoscience that would reflect poorly on the discipline and the institution.
Molly CongerHOST
Today, Noah Carl edits Aporia, the race science magazine published by the Human Diversity Foundation.
Molly CongerHOST
The Human Diversity Foundation is the recent rebrand of the Pioneer Fund.
Molly CongerHOST
After Richard Lynn's death, the Human Diversity Foundation took over publication of Mankind Quarterly, the race science journal Lynn had previously published through his Ulster Institute for Social Research.
Molly CongerHOST
That same race science think tank that published Kofnis' book.
Molly CongerHOST
It sounds messy because it is.
Adrian GoldbergHOST
Kofnas, a self-described race realist, has previously written that race is linked to intelligence and said that without diversity, equality and inclusion initiatives, there would be no black academics at Harvard.
Adrian GoldbergHOST
These and similar views have been discussed, disseminated and amplified via a blog called Aporia, which is the public facing arm of the Human Diversity Foundation, now known as Polygenic Scores.
Adrian GoldbergHOST
The Human Diversity Foundation was the new name for the Pioneer Fund, a pro-eugenics movement founded in the United States in the pre-Nazi era.
Adrian GoldbergHOST
In other words, the tragic story of Jason Arday isn't just about one controversial black academic.
Adrian GoldbergHOST
Rather, it has been promoted by a much wider movement, some of it funded by the Trump-supporting tech bro Peter Thiel, and one that seeks to promote ideas of white racial superiority.
June SternbachHOST
It was maybe the most fun I've had watching someone have fun online in a while.
Josh BoermanHOST
We last talked about the Human Diversity Foundation, the HDF, during our episode about IQ and the bell curve.
Josh BoermanHOST
That was the one that Diana sent that email in response to.
Josh BoermanHOST
And I just want to kind of review a few points that we discussed in that episode.
21 MINS LATER
Josh BoermanHOST
I wouldn't have it any other
June SternbachHOST
way.
Josh BoermanHOST
Now we're gonna get back to the other thing about the Human Diversity Foundation, the other thing they were up to this week, the not funny thing in a little bit.
Josh BoermanHOST
In order to frame that up though, I think that we need to talk about what their deal is.
BrentHOST
Mm.
EmmanuelHOST
Human Diversity Foundation.
EmmanuelHOST
So if people wanna maybe listen and type at the same time-
BrentHOST
Mm-hmm
EmmanuelHOST
... type in HDF, Human Diversity Foundation.
BrentHOST
Mm-hmm.
EmmanuelHOST
'Cause this is where things start getting interesting, bro.
BrentHOST
Mm-hmm.