1/ NEW: trans identification is in free fall among the young
 
(h/t @FIRE data in particular) 2/ Non-conforming sexual identity (queer, questioning, etc) is also in sharp decline.

Gay and lesbian are stable while heterosexuality has rebounded by around 10 points since 2023.

1/ NEW: Announcing the Buckingham Manifesto for a Post-Progressive Social Science

Just released at @chronicle

Signatories span the range from anti-Trump liberals (i.e. @sapinker @clairlemon) to conservative reformers (i.e. @realchrisrufo @GadSaad)

A new intellectual movement 2/ This is an intellectual manifesto, not a policy statement. A high cultural and research agenda for a post-progressive age. One that gets beyond the cultural left worldview that has dominated western intellectual life for the past 60 years.

1/ We are entering a post-progressive era. The cultural left-liberalism which emerged a century ago and took off in the late 1960s is exhausted. This ‘vibe shift’doesn’t just repudiate the last decade, but the last 60 years. My latest @WSJ 2/ Ideas are often downstream of events, rather than the reverse. The origins of postmodernism and critical theory lie in decolonization, Civil Rights and the ‘new social movements’ of minorities, feminists and gays.

1/ Trump's power trip is weakening national populism worldwide. Why? 2/ Right populism is essentially CULTURAL nationalism: a desire to defend national traditions against left-liberal extremism (i.e. on immigration, history, the sex binary, or censorship)

1/ Authors of a pro-DEI paper published in Nature and reported in Science made critical errors which nullify their findings. Not only did they bury inconvenient findings, they reported junk results.

science.org/content/articl… 2/ First, they found that Black and Hispanic scholars have far fewer cited published works than White and Asian scholars but did not report this.

1/ Woke won’t fade away because it is rooted in left-liberalism, the basis of modern western culture.
A thread on my new book Taboo (The Third Awokening in North America), released today:

amazon.com/Third-Awokenin…
amazon.co.uk/Taboo-Making-P… 2/ Woke is a useful analytical concept that describes a distinct phenomenon in the world: the making sacred of historically marginalized race, gender and sexual minority groups. Woke people are emotionally attached to minorities and cold toward majorities.

1/ Canadians are not woke, but have the same views on culture wars issues as Americans and Brits. That is the main finding in my new @mli report:

macdonaldlaurier.ca/politics-of-cu… 2/ Canadian attitudes average within 0.3 of a percent of British attitudes (across 30 items) and 1 percent of American attitudes (13 items), despite surveys conducted 1-2 years apart, with different samples and firms!

1/ After 20 years, I am leaving a full University of London professorship for the University of Buckingham. In January, I launch a new low-cost online course open to the public on Woke: the Origins, Dynamics and Implications of an Elite Ideology. Sign up:

sneps.net/contact-us 2/ Why leave? My university’s uncertain financial position played a role, but I was also repelled by cancel culture and attracted by the chance to help build Buckingham as the only ‘free speech university’ in Britain. Still, sorry to say goodbye to good colleagues and students

1 / Did woke arise because Marxists turned from class to identity, or did because liberal law accidentally evolved toward equality of result and speech suppression. My review of @RichardHanania and @realchrisrufo’s new books.

lawliberty.org/book-review/tw… 2/ @RichardHanania is correct that cultural Marxists played little role in the rise of affirmative action (equal results for identity groups) and claims that speech has to be suppressed to remove ‘hostile environments’ for minorities

1/ American academics tacitly support censoring their colleagues. A thread on the recent @TheFIREorg report authored by Sean Stevens, Nate Honeycutt and myself
thefire.org/research-learn… 2/ It's true that American professors are more tolerant of controversial speakers than their students. Most oppose no-platforming. This is positive news.

1/ Why school indoctrination is working, and will make the Republicans unelectable in a generation. A thread, based on my new @ManhattanInst report with @ZachG932

linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a… 2/ @jburnmurdoch @FT showed that younger generations are diverging from older ones by not becoming more Republican as they age. Why might this be?

1/ Concepts derived from critical race & gender theory are being taught to a *MAJORITY* of British schoolchildren, and many are rejecting free speech and British heritage. A thread based on my 2 new @Policy_Exchange reports

policyexchange.org.uk/publication/th…

policyexchange.org.uk/publication/th… 2/ 73% of over 1,500 British 18-20 year-olds in my @YouGov survey who gave a response say they were taught, or heard from an adult in school, about at least one of 5 Critical Social Justice (CSJ) terms. 59% were taught about at least one Critical Race-derived term

1/ Critical race and gender theory is in 93% of American schools. @realchrisrufo has been proved right. @ZachG932 and I have new survey data from a representative sample of American 18 to 20 year-olds on what they were taught. Read more @CityJournal:

linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a… 2/ 66% taught or heard from an adult at school about white privilege, 67% that ‘America is built on stolen land’, 62% that America is ‘systemically racist’, 51% that gender is a choice regardless of biological sex

1/ American elite college students are not all liberal Democrats but are more politically divided by identity than the US public. A thread based on my new report @CSPIcenter based on @FIRE surveys of over 55,000 students at the top 150 colleges.

cspicenter.com/p/diverse-and-… 2/ Most white male students in top schools who are not religious ‘nones’ are Republican

1/15 A thread: The LGBT share among young Americans tripled in the last decade to 21%. Trans & non-binary identification may be up as much as 1000%. My new @CSPICenterOrg report shows that this is, as @billmaher suggested, shaped by social trends:
cspicenter.org/reports/born-t… 2/Data from @GSS_NORC shows that LGBT identification has been diverging from same-sex behavior. LGBT identity has risen 11 points among Americans under 30 since 2008, but same-sex behavior has only risen 4 points

1/ Why is Wokeness so Successful?
The Roots of left-modernism (Wokeness) lie in liberalism, not socialism: in the fear of majority tyranny, and protectiveness toward minorities americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/11/libera… 2/ Wokeness did not arise from liberal principles, but from the ‘Liberal Identity’ – a complex of stories, symbols and affective attachments about brave saviours fighting tyrannical majorities & protecting vulnerable minorities

1/ Why is Wokeness so Successful?
The Roots of left-modernism (Wokeness) lie in liberalism, not socialism: in the fear of majority tyranny, and protectiveness toward minorities americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/11/libera… 2/ Wokeness did not arise from liberal principles, but from the ‘Liberal Identity’ – a complex of stories, symbols and affective attachments about brave saviours fighting tyrannical majorities & protecting vulnerable minorities

americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/11/libera…

1/ The left-conservative intellectual tradition: a thread. Feat. Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer, Christopher Lasch, Mike Lind @GoodwinMJ @David_Goodhart @JohnBJudis @WilliamClouston @shadihamid @sullydish @Edsall @Phillip_Blond @blue_labour @Fox_Claire @PatrickDeneen @aaronsibarium 2/ In 1979, Daniel Bell, a key figure with roots in the mainly Jewish, anti-communist left 'New York Intellectuals' of the 1930s-60s wrote of the way cultural liberalism was reshaping the political map - precisely what is happening now