The Past Is a Future Country: The Coming Conservative Demographic Revolution (Societas: Essays in Political & Cultural Criticism) - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Edward Dutton is a researcher based in Oulu in northern Finland. Born in London in 1980, Dutton read Theology at Durham University before completing a PhD in Religious Studies at Aberdeen University in 2006. This was developed into his first book: Meeting Jesus at University: Rites of Passage and Student Evangelicals (2008). He was made 'Docent' (Adjunct Reader) of the Anthropology of Religion and Finnish Culture at Oulu University in 2011. In 2012, however, Dutton made the move to evolutionary psychology. Since then, Dutton has published in leading psychology journals including Intelligence, and Personality and Individual Differences. He has been a guest researcher in the Psychology Department at Umeå University in Sweden and is academic consultant to a research group in the Special Education Department at King Saud University in Riyadh. In 2020, he was appointed Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at Asbiro University, a business-focused university of applied sciences in Lódź, Poland. Dutton's research has been reported worldwide. He runs a popular internet channel, The Jolly Heretic, in which he explores daring scientific research. Dutton is the author of many books, most recently, Witches, Feminism, and the Fall of the West (2021), Islam: An Evolutionary Perspective (2020) and Churchill's Headmaster: The 'Sadist' Who Nearly Saved the British Empire (2019).

J.O.A. Rayner-Hilles is an independent researcher and software engineer based in Caterham in Surrey. He was born there in 1995 and has a degree in Information Technology from Greenwich University in London. Rayner-Hilles is an Associate Member of the British Computer Society. He is the author of the GSS Python Simulator used to make the predictions in this book. He works with Dutton behind the scenes on his internet channel The Jolly Heretic. The Past is a Future Country is his first book.