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11/ Mounk: "Woke right" is a useful shorthand --- both woke left and right are attempts to sanctify certain psychological/evolutionary instincts pertaining to in-group and out-group -- but the woke-right term doesn't capture its different intellectual traditions.

12/ Mounk: Liberalism offers the clearest alternative to both. It is right to use government power to counter illiberal practices (such as requiring DEI statements) but recent actions of Trump admin have gone too far and are weakening academia.

13/ Pinker: We need to know not just what we are against but also what we are for. Otherwise there is a danger of lurching from woke leftism to woke rightism. The answer lies in Enlightenment ideals: reason, science, humanism, and the institutions that sustain them.

14/ Pinker: The data shows that Enlightenment ideals—rooted in classical liberalism—have driven human flourishing: longer lives, more peace, rising literacy, even greater happiness. We should protect and improve the institutions that made progress possible.

15/ That ends day 1. We retire for drinks. An amazing conference that Eric Kauffman has pulled together. Several of my heroes and half my twitter feed is here in person. More anon. /End

"this is no longer just about me. It is about whether Britain still believes that no religion is beyond criticism, especially when it shapes public life and political power. That was the principle I was imprisoned for defending in Turkey and it was the principle I was defending

Over the last 24 hours I have received a huge number of lovely and heartfelt messages from people who have expressed their dismay at my resignation, urging me to reconsider. After 11 months of working as a volunteer to build a political party from scratch, with barely a single

Zia is an asset. He is a brilliantly talented person and has worked as hard over the last year as anyone I have ever met. He deserves a bit of time to catch his breath and then deserves the right to pick what projects within Reform he wants to focus on. I do not expect

'Him and Nigel Farage have patched up their differences.' @ChristopherHope details Zia Yusuf’s return to Reform UK 48 hours after quitting the party. He has announced his new role will be running the UK DOGE team and has voiced his 'full faith' in Sarah Pochin.

Welcome back Zia great news 👏👏 Watch out, Reform DOGE is about 💷

What a pleasant surprise, Zia. Thank you for your ongoing service.

Just left an excellent conference on Heterodox Social Science at U Buckingham. Among the topics: Critical Woke Studies, the attempt to understand why universities & other institutions lost their minds starting around 2010, abandoning liberalism and reason for censorship and

Eric Kaufmann James Tooley James Esses Steven Pinker Michael Shermer J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨‍💻 Sally Satel Abhishek Saha Helen Pluckrose Prof Ian Pace Lawrence M. Krauss Matt Goodwin @gad

Eric Kaufmann James Tooley James Esses Steven Pinker Michael Shermer J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨‍💻 Sally Satel Abhishek Saha Helen Pluckrose Prof Ian Pace Lawrence M. Krauss Matt Goodwin gad' Gad Saad The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim Zach Goldberg Bruce Goodwin 🇬🇧🍻🏏🏌🏽🎸 Dr. Jan van de Beek Cory Clark Claire Lehmann Pamela Paresky🎗️(Habits of a Free Mind) Jukka Savolainen thanks for coming

Jukka Savolainen James Tooley The University of Buckingham Congratulation, James! You are back where you belong (and slightly tipsy too, I seem to gather 😉).

"It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that CO2, the life of plants, was deemed for a time to be a deadly poison." So said Prof Richard Lindzen. He's right, says Chris Morrison. dailysceptic.org/2025/06/12/the…

Another serious, forensic, comprehensive piece of analysis by Douglas Carswell🇬🇧🇺🇸. Everyone agrees that it is wrong to pay benefits to newly arrived foreigners. But Douglas is unusual in having bothered to formulate a practicable plan to solve the problem. telegraph.co.uk/news/0/foreign…

Por supuesto que lo compré, James Tooley #FLMadrid25 #ElBelloÀrbol #Venezuela