from spiked
Eric Kaufmann on his battle to liberate universities from the stranglehold of woke.
Universities are supposed to pride themselves on free and fearless inquiry, and on the unfettered pursuit of truth. But when so much of academia is captured by woke ideology, can we really trust all of the ‘knowledge’ being generated? Eric Kaufmann – director of the Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham – has set out to challenge the ‘progressive’ stranglehold on academia. Earlier this year, he organised the inaugural Heterodox Social Science Conference, bringing together scholars and thinkers from a variety of disciplines and with a range of perspectives that might otherwise be ignored or ostracised. spiked’s Fraser Myers sat down with him at the conference. What follows is an edited version of their conversation. Watch the full thing here.