Nationalism and the Culture Wars podcast
Sep 29, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 10 segments
NTD's Lee Hall sits down with Eric Kaufmann, Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, to discuss the culture wars and where society will end up if it continues on the…
Eric KaufmannGuestLee HallHost
I think there are some indicators that show that a peak was reached in 2021, let's say, or 2020.
or white privilege in White supremacy in the New York Times and Washington Post, major newspapers.
So certainly in terms of mentions in the media, discourse around systemic racism and patriarchy and so on, that's declined.
And then, of course, the Trump administration has made this a feature of its policy priorities for the first year in office.
We've seen, for example, mentions of DEI in corporate earnings calls have been dropping for several years.
Now, you could say that's allowed university presidents to do what they've always wanted to do, which was gain some leverage against the radical left activists who tend to dominate university policymaking from the academics upward and from the affinity groups and DEI committees.
They've gotten largely getting rid of mandatory diversity statements, which are these political loyalty oaths that you have to swear in order to get research funding or get a job, which screens out anyone who isn't on the progressive left.
I think there are some indicators that show that a peak was reached in 2021, let's say, or 2020.
or white privilege in White supremacy in the New York Times and Washington Post, major newspapers.
So certainly in terms of mentions in the media, discourse around systemic racism and patriarchy and so on, that's declined.
And then, of course, the Trump administration has made this a feature of its policy priorities for the first year in office.
We've seen, for example, mentions of DEI in corporate earnings calls have been dropping for several years.
Now, you could say that's allowed university presidents to do what they've always wanted to do, which was gain some leverage against the radical left activists who tend to dominate university policymaking from the academics upward and from the affinity groups and DEI committees.
They've gotten largely getting rid of mandatory diversity statements, which are these political loyalty oaths that you have to swear in order to get research funding or get a job, which screens out anyone who isn't on the progressive left.
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