Tag: Nathan Cofnas

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A few days ago it was reported that 300 staff and students at Ghent University signed a petition demanding that Nathan Cofnas be removed from his position as a researcher in the university’s Department of Philosophy and Moral Science. The petition reflects a familiar pattern in contemporary academia: scholars who explore controversial questions are increasingly treated not as participants in debate but as targets for exclusion. The controversy surrounding Cofnas therefore says as much about the climate of academic discourse as it does about the subject of his research. (more…)

Nathan Cofnas (from his Twitter/X feed)

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Nathan Cofnas first came to my attention in 2018 when he became the first mainstream academic to challenge Kevin MacDonald regarding his classic work of counter-Semitism, The Culture of Critique. He engaged with Prof. MacDonald point for point over the course of several weeks regarding the work’s merits and demerits, producing academic theater that was both tedious and fascinating; perhaps a little more of the latter. (more…)

Keith Woods

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Greg Johnson welcomed Keith Woods (Twitter, Substack) back to Counter-Currents Radio in the first part of our latest broadcast to talk about his debate with Neema Parvini, a.k.a. Academic Agent, on ideology vs. power. It is now available for download and online listening. You can read their exchange here: (more…)

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Sites such as The Unz Review and Counter-Currents are maligned by the mainstream media for promoting extreme views. But are these outlets more impartial and diverse than elite outlets? Unlike the establishment media, these publications broadcast a broader spectrum of ideas and are likely to engender civil discourse. (more…)

Georg Keller, etching depicting the expulsion of Jews from Frankfurt, 1614.

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The tenacious Nathan Cofnas should be applauded for exposing Kevin MacDonald’s theory of Judaism as an evolutionary strategy to a popular audience. However, though his arguments appear insightful, it is evident that Cofnas has not succeeded in proposing a plausible alternative to MacDonald’s theory. According to the “default hypothesis” promulgated by Cofnas, Jewish involvement in influential movements that are not overtly anti-Semitic is explainable by higher IQ scores and concentration in urban areas.  (more…)

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Part 4 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

Part 1 here, wherein I provide an introduction to this debate, a brief history, a recap of Kevin MacDonald’s counter-Semitic opus The Culture of Critique (hereafter, CofC), a summation of Nathan Cofnas’ major arguments against CofC, and a section which calls into question Cofnas’ objectivity in this debate.  (more…)

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Part 3 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 4 here)

[Updated: Nathan Cofnas correctly points out that I included remarks by MacDonald that had later been revised. I’ve corrected the relevant portions below.]

Part 1 here, wherein I provide an introduction to this debate, a brief history, a recap of Kevin MacDonald’s counter-Semitic opus The Culture of Critique (hereafter, CofC), (more…)

Nathan Cofnas

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Part 2 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

In the first part, I provide an introduction to this debate, a recap of Kevin MacDonald’s counter-Semitic opus The Culture of Critique (hereafter, CofC), a summation of Nathan Cofnas’ major arguments against CofC, and also call into question Cofnas’ objectivity in this debate. (more…)

Kevin MacDonald

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Part 1 of 4 (Part 2 here)

For the Dissident Right, a moment of tremendous importance occurred on March 10, 2018. Nathan Cofnas, a graduate student working on his doctorate in the philosophy of biology at the University of Oxford, (more…)