Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast.

This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Joining me on today's show is Eric Kaufman. Eric is a professor of politics and the director of the Center for Hedrox Social

Science at the University of Buckingham, and he's an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

He's the author of several fascinating books,

including White Shift, Immigration, Populism, and the Future of White Majorities.

His writing on policy, culture, demographics, education, free expression, has appeared in

City Journal and in many other publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal,

National Review, and other outlets. Today, we're going to be discussing his brand new book,

The Third Awakening, a 12-point plan for Rolling Back Progressive Extremism, which was published

last month. So, Eric, great to have you on Ten Blocks again.

Great to be back, Brian.

So in this very interesting new book, you write that the West is going through a wave of

leftist ideological enthusiasm. You call it the third awakening.

And a strain of radicalism has clearly swept our institutions,

as you describe.

This has, among other unfortunate effects, produced a crime wave, worsening educational system,

border chaos, social division, and more.

So just to get some definitions down, what in your view does it

mean to be woke, and how does this third awokening relate to earlier radical waves?

Yeah, really good questions. And so the first answer there is that woke, I believe,

has an analytical value. It does describe something

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