27 Facts About Eric Kaufmann

Eric Kaufmann was appointed in October 2023, following his resignation from his post at Birkbeck, University of London, after two decades of work, citing political differences.

Eric Kaufmann is a specialist on Orangeism in Northern Ireland, nationalism, and political and religious demography.

Eric Kaufmann has authored, co-authored, and edited books and other publications on these subjects.

Eric Kaufmann was born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and Japan.

Eric Kaufmann's ancestry is half Jewish, one-quarter Chinese and one-quarter Costa Rican.

Eric Kaufmann's mother is a lapsed Catholic; he himself attended Catholic school for only a year.

Eric Kaufmann received his BA from the University of Western Ontario in 1991.

Eric Kaufmann received his MA from the London School of Economics in 1994 where he subsequently completed his PhD in 1998.

Eric Kaufmann has been an adjunct fellow of the conservatarian Manhattan Institute think tank since 2020.

In 2023, Eric Kaufmann resigned from Birkbeck College after two decades in his posts and joined the University of Buckingham in October.

Eric Kaufmann has argued that in the Western world, as the second demographic transition occurred during the 1960s, people began moving away from traditional, communal values towards more expressive, individualistic outlooks, owing to access to and aspiration for higher education.

Eric Kaufmann reported that in the United States, religious conservatism and participation play a key role in raising the relative level of fertility.

Eric Kaufmann argued that such religious demographic changes will bring about social and political ramifications later in the century.

Eric Kaufmann noted that as the overall fertility rate of a given society continues to decline due to the second demographic transition, the fertility advantage enjoyed by the religious, especially the most devout of factions, grows.

Eric Kaufmann gave the Mormons in the United States as an example of a group that maintained a one-child fertility premium over the rest of society, despite seeing some declines of their own.

Eric Kaufmann has argued that once a critical mass is reached, a religious group will start influencing the overall demographic trend of its society.

Eric Kaufmann has called "woke" ideas "a battle for the foundations of our civilisation" and has expressed support for Florida governor Ron DeSantis, arguing at the 2022 British Conservative Party conference that the party should follow DeSantis's lead.

Eric Kaufmann rejects the conventional view that this is due primarily to comparatively low fertility rates, large-scale international migration, and the growth in cultural prominence of ethnically diverse newcomers.

Eric Kaufmann observed that devout factions tend to have a significant fertility advantage over their more moderate counterparts and the non-religious.

Eric Kaufmann projected that secularism will have a mixed future in Europe.

Eric Kaufmann observed that moderate faith of the Abrahamic variety is under pressure from both secularists and fundamentalists as they find themselves living in the secularizing societies of the West.

However, Eric Kaufmann rejected the increasingly popular notion that Islam will become the dominant religion in Europe by the end of the twenty-first century; rather, he suggests that Muslims will stabilize at around a fifth of the European population by 2100.

Eric Kaufmann's Whiteshift is an extensive study of how the migration-driven demographic transformation of the West affects the ballot box.

Eric Kaufmann further argues that the category of 'white people' will be enlarged to include more ethnically diverse individuals.

Eric Kaufmann suggested that the surge of nationalism and populism observed in many Western countries is due to the latter group.

The New Yorker wrote that Eric Kaufmann's Whiteshift was defending white identity politics.

Eric Kaufmann is methodologically catholic and draws on a rich range of different resources to examine and interrogate evolving white identity politics.