Nathan Cofnas is a research fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. His research is supported by a grant from the Leverhulme Trust. He is also a university research associate at Emmanuel College. He works at the intersection of science and philosophy and has published several articles in leading peer-reviewed journals. He also writes popular articles and posts on Substack.
In January, Cofnas published a post titled “Why We Need to Talk About the Right’s Stupidity Problem.” No one in Cambridge seems concerned about his argument that people on the political right have lower average intelligence than people on the left.
However, some people in Cambridge were deeply troubled by Cofnas’ February post, ‘A Guide for the Hereditarian Revolution’. To follow Cofnas’s “guide” one must accept “racial realism”: the view that heredity plays a role in the existing social and economic disparities between different demographic groups. Only by challenging the taboo on racial realism, Cofnas believes, can conservatives overcome “wokism,” which he argues is a barrier to understanding the causes of inequality and to allowing people to succeed on the basis of merit.
