Professor Sets up ‘Faculty for Common Sense’ to Fight ‘Progressive Conformity’

Eric Kaufmann has created a new research centre because ’there is absolutely nothing that goes against the prevailing narrative' of wokeness.
Professor Sets up ‘Faculty for Common Sense’ to Fight ‘Progressive Conformity’
Eric Kaufmann, former professor of politics at Birkbeck, University of London, being interviewed by NTD's Lee Hall in London in April 2023. NTD
Owen Evans
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A leading researcher into cancel culture has left his university for a rival institution because he says there is nothing to challenge the woke “progressive-controlled monoculture of academia.”

Professor Eric Kaufmann has left Birkbeck, University of London, to take up a position as professor of politics at the University of Buckingham to start the world’s first course on woke as well as a research centre.

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