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. He's an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a professor of politics at

Burbock College University of London and the author of several books. He's been on the podcast before.

His work focuses on demography, religious and national identity, and cultural politics.

In a recent report for the Manhattan Institute, The Politics of the Culture Wars in Contemporary

America, he quantifies the nature and extent of the political divides over free speech,

cancel culture, and race essentialism in the U.S.

It's a massive document with a ton of original research and analysis in it, and we're very glad

to run a synopsis of its basic argument in City Journal and to have Eric on the podcast again.

So, Eric, thanks very much for joining us.

It's great to be back, Brian.

Your report contains some very striking findings.

For instance, when they're asked what they consider the most important problem facing

the United States, 10% of the survey respondents chose cultural

war or culture war issues. So political correctness, cancel culture, as we've come to call it,

wokeness, people falsely accused of racism and sexism. They ranked culture wars third just below

COVID-19 and the economy and health care and ahead of

other issues like immigration and the environment. So could you talk about some of the most

significant top line results of your research? Yeah, I mean, this is, I think, quite important

because there is a debate over how important

the culture wars are to the average person, to the average voter, and often it's suggested

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