Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Joining me on the show today is Eric Kaufman. He's an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a professor of politics

at Burbank College at the University of London. And the author of several books, his work focuses on

issues of demography, religious and national identity, and cultural politics.

In a recent piece for a city journal, a necessary intervention, he outlines an exhaustive

strategy to stem the tide of progressive authoritarianism in higher education.

And in a new report that's getting a lot of attention for the Manhattan Institute,

he explains the role that media, cultural, and academic forces play in misleading American

society about the extent of racism. So Eric, thanks very much for joining it.

Brian, it's great to be here. Let's start with your piece for City Journal,

a necessary intervention it was called. There you discuss just how suffocating the environment can be

in universities for professors who, and students who dissent from the elite left-wing orthodoxies of the campus.

You find in your research the one-third of right-leaning academics and graduate students

say they've been disciplined for their speech,

while younger academics are in fact more likely to support crackdowns on speech and even firing

dissenters. So that suggests, as you say, that things will get worse rather than better.

And justifying, in your view, government intervention to ensure freedom of expression on campus.

So maybe you could say a little bit about this

research, and then we can talk about the reforms you advocate. This research was not just

the UK, it was also for the U.S., right? Yeah, that's right. It came out in a report for the

Center for the Study of Partisanship and ideology

based on eight surveys across the UK, US, and Canada, focusing slightly more on the US in this

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