Even with President Trump back in the White House, American Liberty is at threat. Its threats come not just from a relentless Left but also from a rabid Right. These two forces work together like a pair of scissors to cut the thread of Liberty that defines our great nation. It is crucial we come to understand these threats to American Liberty for what they really are. Watch James Lindsay and Michael O’Fallon in Dallas, TX, recorded August 22-23, 2025, to learn more about this rising threat and how we can save American Liberty.
James Lindsay has included his personal notes that guided this workshop, found here.
Session 1: Stakeholderism and the Post-America Movement | James Lindsay
From August 22-23, 2025, in Dallas, Texas, New Discourses was proud to host a learning seminar event called Saving American Liberty, featuring talks from New Discourses founder James Lindsay and the founder of Sovereign Nations and New Discourses partner, Michael O’Fallon. The event opened with a talk by Lindsay outlining what is known as the “Stakeholder Economy.” You may associate this idea with the World Economic Forum’s “Stakeholder Capitalism” model, ESG scoring, or the UN’s Agenda 2030, and you’re right. In this penetrating lecture, Lindsay explains what the Stakeholder Economy model is, how it works, its historical roots with elements from the Soviet Communist model the Nazi German economy, and how it’s applied to our lives today, both in the CCP and throughout the West. Join him for this important lecture on the shape of the dark future being pressed upon us.
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Standalone Article: Stakeholderism and the Post-America Movement | James Lindsay
Session 2: The Big Picture | Michael O’Fallon
We are currently experiencing a pivotal moment in history, as the foundational ideas and concepts that have sustained Western Civilization are beginning to fracture and shift beneath us.
However, grasping the overarching “what” regarding the surge of identity politics, cyber authoritarianism, and digital surveillance in our society is unattainable without comprehending the “why.”
In this powerful session from the New Discourses event Saving American Liberty, Michael O’Fallon, founder of Sovereign Nations, unpacks the sweeping transformation that has been underway across every major pillar of society—education, faith, media, corporations, and government. He explains how each has been deliberately destabilized to usher in what global elites call the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.”
Drawing on his firsthand experiences in the rooms where these ideas were seeded, O’Fallon traces how ideological movements such as critical race theory, intersectionality, and progressive theology were deployed to erode stable cultural foundations and prepare humanity for a managed, post-liberal world.
O’Fallon reveals how institutions like the United Nations, UNESCO, and the World Economic Forum have long sought to construct “the defenses of peace in the minds of men,” not through faith or reason, but by reshaping consciousness itself through global integration, surveillance, and transhumanist technologies. O’Fallon connects the philosophies of figures such as Julian Huxley and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to modern technocrats like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, warning that the merging of man and machine, the rise of digital currencies, and the encirclement of Earth by data systems like Starlink point toward a cognitive prison—a “noosphere” in which independent thought and true liberty are extinguished. Yet he insists that awareness and courage can still resist this totalizing vision: the defense of cognitive liberty begins with understanding what’s at stake.
This talk sets the stage for the deeper examinations of integralism and neo-integralism that follow, challenging viewers to recognize how the ideological, spiritual, and technological revolutions of our time are converging into a single transformative project—and why it must be confronted with truth.
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Standalone Article: The Big Picture | Michael O’Fallon
Session 3: Left and Right with Society in the Balance | James Lindsay
In this third lecture in the series, Lindsay continues discussing the development of twentieth-century Communism along its second track: Western Marxism. The Western Marxist tradition contains many threads, virtually all of which start with either the Fabian Socialist Society in the UK or, more infamously, with Cultural Marxism elsewhere throughout the Western world. Cultural Marxism itself gives way to Critical Marxism (that is, Critical Theory) through the middle of the twentieth century, particularly in America, and informs other movements such as feminism, radical racial movements, critical education theories, and eventually the development of an intersectional “Woke” Marxism we’re dealing with today. Understanding this requires understanding the influences of many Marxist thinkers including Mao Zedong, whose most culturally destructive ideas were imported by the Critical Marxists and Critical Pedagogues. This in-depth lecture describes the development of a whole new “Social” Communism that sought to find ways to penetrate Western Civilization to make it soft to socialism and Communism.
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Standalone Article: Left and Right with Society in the Balance | James Lindsay
Session 4: Twentieth Century Woke—Left and Right | James Lindsay
What does “Woke” mean? James Lindsay, founder of New Discourses, says it is an awakening to a “sociognostic” belief structure. What is that, and how does it manifest in different contexts? In this third talk from the Saving American Liberty learning seminar in Dallas, Texas, hosted by New Discourses on August 22-23, 2025, Lindsay explains the concept in considerable detail. He also applies it to the “20th century” (or, Modernist) mode of thinking to reveal that two forms of Woke sociognosticism appear in that context: Communism on the Woke Left and Fascism as a form of Reaction on the Woke Right. Further, he provides contemporary examples of how this strain of thought is making an unwanted comeback, both Left and Right, throughout the West today. Join him for this important lecture explaining the model and modes of “Woke” thinking in a historical context we already understand.
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Standalone Article: Twentieth Century Woke—Left and Right | James Lindsay
Session 5: Sustainability and the One Belt One Road Initiative | Michael O’Fallon
In this session, Michael O’Fallon outlines how global political, corporate, and religious institutions are jointly restructuring Western society through policies he describes as “degrowth,” “sustainability dogma,” and “integralism.” He argues that initiatives such as net-zero mandates, ESG compliance, and the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals have become a kind of secular-religious doctrine imposed across governments, corporations, and even faith communities. These frameworks, he contends, are not merely environmental or ethical guidelines but mechanisms to centralize control, restrict individual liberty, and drive the West away from the free-market abundance that characterized the post-World War II era.
O’Fallon contrasts this Western self-imposed contraction with China’s aggressive expansion through the Belt and Road Initiative. While Western nations dismantle energy infrastructure, constrain industry, and regulate consumption, China is building power plants, acquiring mineral rights, modernizing infrastructure across the developing world, and embedding itself economically throughout Eurasia, Africa, and Latin America. He argues that these partnerships allow China to gain political leverage, establish digital and physical control systems, and prepare for a multipolar world in which the United States is no longer the dominant global power. This shift, he says, is aided by Western bureaucrats and global organizations that deliberately weaken America’s economic and geopolitical standing.
A major consequence of these policies, O’Fallon argues, is the engineered fragmentation of Western societies. He describes how identity-based movements, cultural conflicts, and demographic pressures—exacerbated by state policy and corporate messaging—create social fractures that mirror the ancient strategy of “divide and conquer.”
As hotels convert to migrant housing, small businesses collapse, urban centers destabilize, and autonomous ideological “zones” proliferate, O’Fallon warns that Americans are being pushed into competing tribal enclaves. This internal division, he suggests, leaves the nation vulnerable to foreign influence and unable to mount a unified defense of its foundational principles.
Finally, O’Fallon connects these trends to what he views as a broader transformation of governance: from a system based on merit, liberty, and individual responsibility toward one based on compliance, surveillance, and obedience. He argues that COVID-era restrictions served as a form of “obedience school,” conditioning the public to accept top-down directives. At the same time, artificial intelligence, centralized digital infrastructure, and public-private partnerships reinforce the emerging hierarchy. According to O’Fallon, this movement is not accidental but part of a global meta-system change—an intentional transition from free-market capitalism to a new economic and political model in which citizens and corporations are expected to conform to ideological requirements rather than exercise independent judgment.
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Standalone Article: Sustainability and the One Belt One Road Initiative | Michael O’Fallon
Session 6: Panel: From Woke Left to Woke Right | James Lindsay & Michael O’Fallon
At the Saving American Liberty learning seminar hosted by New Discourses in Dallas, Texas, on August 22-23, 2025, New Discourses founder James Lindsay and Sovereign Nations founder Michael O’Fallon sat down in front of the audience for a live, unscripted, and raw discussion about the circumstances and challenges Lindsay has faced for standing up to the “New Right” (or, if you want, “Dissident Right,” “Postliberal Right,” or “Woke Right”). The audience was shocked to hear what Lindsay revealed. Their conversation wasn’t limited only to this issue, however. It also tied Lindsay’s personal experience into the broader context of the radical movements we’re facing from both Left and Right at the same time, helping people to make sense of the bigger play that’s taking place that is neither Left nor Right but using radical elements within both to cut our society apart like a pair of scissors. Join Lindsay and O’Fallon and their live audience for this unique conversation so you can gain clarity and perspective on what’s happening all around us in the war against Woke.
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Standalone Article: Panel: From Woke Left to Woke Right | James Lindsay & Michael O’Fallon
Session 7: Twenty-First Century Woke—Left and Right | James Lindsay
During the 20th century, or the Modern Era, material conditions were king, but as the Information Era of the 21st century (construed broadly) emerged, they have become less important to our politics. At the New Discourses-hosted Saving American Liberty conference held in Dallas, Texas, on August 22-23, 2025, founder of New Discourses, James Lindsay, explains in this important fourth lecture how thinking changed as the Modern Era gave way to an Information Era many consider to be “Postmodern.” Continuing from his previous lecture in the series, Lindsay explains that “Woke” sociognostic thinking evolved along with this change, which can be characterized by a transition from thinking man is produced by his material conditions to believing he is produced by his social (structural) conditions, which “Woke” radicals need to seize in order to remake man in their own images. Join him for a proper introduction to the “Woke Right” as a Reaction movement against the postmodern neo-Marxism of the Woke Left.
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Standalone Article: Twenty-First Century Woke—Left and Right | James Lindsay
Session 8: Integralism, Authority, and the Refactoring of Social Order | Michael O’Fallon
In this session, Michael O’Fallon argues that contemporary post-liberal and integralist movements, while often presented as moral correctives to modern liberalism, pose significant challenges to pluralism, constitutional governance, and individual liberty. O’Fallon examines how concepts such as distributism and subsidiarity can shift authority away from individuals toward centralized structures claiming to serve the “common good,” and how modern forms of integralism blur the distinction between spiritual and temporal power, raising concerns about dissent and conscience in diverse societies. O’Fallon situates these developments within broader dynamics of social destabilization and reform, noting how periods of cultural conflict and institutional distrust create openings for sweeping structural change. He further explores the evolving role of religious institutions, cautioning that partnerships with political and economic elites risk instrumentalizing faith in support of technocratic agendas. O’Fallon concludes that the convergence of political theory, religion, and technology signals a transition toward more integrated forms of authority that require careful, historically informed scrutiny to ensure they remain compatible with freedom, accountability, and human dignity.
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Standalone Article: Integralism, Authority, and the Refactoring of Social Order | Michael O’Fallon
Session 9: What Is an American? | James Lindsay
What is an American? Or, rather, what makes Americans American? This is a question we have been able to take for granted for a long time, but due to unwanted pressure from the “Woke Right,” we’re now facing a deliberate attempt to redefine American identity. At New Discourses, we believe in taking these kinds of challenges head on, so at the Saving American Liberty learning seminar we hosted in Dallas, Texas, on August 22-23, 2025, New Discourses founder, James Lindsay, made it his fifth, final, and anchor lecture of the event. It’s an informative but more importantly inspiring talk that hearkens to the intrinsic and sacred covenant with Liberty that defines American identity. Join him for a better answer to the question “What is an American?” than you’ll hear almost anywhere else, and may your faith in our great nation and its Blessings of Liberty be renewed by it.
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Standalone Article: What Is an American? | James Lindsay
