Review of 'The Third Awokening' by Eric Kaufmann

The book is required reading for anyone interested in understanding the state of our culture today.

Written by Noah Carl.

If the culture war were a physical conflict, Eric Kaufmann would have attained the rank of general.

He’s one of the most prolific scholars of wokeness, having authored dozens of germane reports and articles. He helped craft the British government’s Higher Education Freedom of Speech Bill, which was given royal assent last year. And he recently launched the Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham (a non-woke private university in Britain). Kaufmann even bears some battle scars from his time in the trenches, having been dragged through four – repeat, four – investigations by his former employer. In one tribunal, he was accused of “metaphorically wishing to kill a colleague” because he’d used the phrase “slay the dragon” in a book review. Such are the vagaries of academia.

The point is that few people are more qualified to write a book on wokeness than Eric Kaufmann. And his latest offering, The Third Awokening, does not disappoint.¹