In this fascinating episode, I talk to historian C.J. Killmer about progressivism in the US. He makes a strong case for how the US is currently an oligarchy of progressive elites and this is why they hate Trump so much.

"Trump is a populist, and populism is a real democratic impulse asserting itself against oligarchy."

Follow C. J. on X @KillmerCj and support his podcast at dangeroushistorypodcast.com

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"Kellie-Jay Keen is a global non-feminist women's rights advocate who founded the #LetWomenSpeak movement. She’s unapologetic and unafraid. She believes that language is the key weapon in the arsenal of those who wish to erase women."

In 2018, under the pseudonym of "Posie Parker", Kellie sold stickers and t.shirts printed with the dictionary definition of a woman "Woman, noun, adult human female" to fund a billboard poster in Liverpool with the same text. This was in protest of a local councilor who had expressed support for transgender ideology. After complaints of the billboard by trans activists, Kellie was interviewed by UK police under caution of committing a "hate crime".

Here, Kellie talks about this time and her development into one of the world's most ferocious women's rights activists against an insidious and radical transgender ideology that many feminists support.

Follow Kellie on X @ThePosieParker

Follow her activism and buy merch on her website here Let Women Speak

An agnostic evolutionary psych talks to a Christian economist and philosopher about God, Darwin, economics, and atheist chauvinism.

Follow James on X @JamesKnightPM

and read his work here The Philosophical Muser

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Eric Kaufmann is Professor of Politics at The University of Buckingham and Director of the Centre for Heterodox Social Science.

He directs Buckingham’s new MA in the Politics of Cultural Conflict and PhD in Cultural Politics as well as its open online course on Woke: the Origins, Dynamics and Implications of an Elite Ideology.

He is the author of Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Produced a Cultural Revolution (Forum Press/Bombardier Books May 2024), Whiteshift: Immigration, Populism and the Future of White Majorities (Penguin 2018/ Abrams 2019), Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth (Profile Books 2010), The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America (Harvard 2004), and The Orange Order (Oxford, 2007)

He is co-editor, among others, of Political Demography (Oxford 2012) and editor of Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities (Routledge 2004). In addition to 45 peer-reviewed articles, he has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Times of London, Newsweek, National Review, New Statesman, Financial Times, Unherd and other outlets.

He is affiliated with the Manhattan Institute, Policy Exchange, the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and the University of Austin.

He can be found on X @epkaufm

There is a supplementary document to go with this interview here https://paulawright.substack.com/p/vane-tempest-podcast-interview-with

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I talk to Scott Adams about his latest book Reframe Your Brain: The User Interface for Happiness and Success available to buy now on Amazon and only in EXCELLENT bookshops.

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