Matt Goodwin on the Ideological Capture of Britain's Universities

In this extended conversation, Centre for Heterodox Social Science Director Eric Kaufmann and Matthew Goodwin — political scientist, author, and Fellow at the Centre for Heterodox Social Science — discuss the deep ideological crisis gripping British universities. From the rise of activist-scholarship, to DEI bureaucracies, to the collapse of intellectual diversity, Goodwin explains why higher education has abandoned its mission of truth-seeking.

They explore:

• How academia became a political monoculture
• Why conservative-leaning scholars are punished while left-activist academics face no scrutiny
• The failure of universities to address demographic change, immigration, and realignment
• Why objective inquiry is impossible under DEI capture
• Goodwin’s projection that White British people will become a minority by 2063
• How demographic change will reshape British and Western politics
• Why trust in elite institutions is collapsing
• The coming political realignment — and what it means for the future of the UK

Goodwin also reflects on his book Bad Education and why he left legacy academia for a genuinely heterodox research centre.

If you want to understand the crisis in higher education, the unraveling of the political centre, and the demographic forces reshaping Britain, this is essential viewing.