Saving American Liberty, Session 9
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.
The other lectures in this series can be found here:
Session 1: Stakeholderism and the Post-America Movement | James Lindsay
Session 2: The Big Picture | Michael O’Fallon
Session 3: Left and Right with Society in the Balance | James Lindsay
Session 4: Twentieth Century Woke—Left and Right | James Lindsay
Session 5: 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
Session 7: Twenty-First Century Woke—Left and Right | James Lindsay
Session 8: Integralism, Authority, and the Refactoring of Social Order | Michael O’Fallon
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2 comments
Yes, all three members of the “Woke Right” do, indeed, exert a heck of an unwanted pressure. I can confirm.
I believe that the problem we ran into in establishing America (the U.S.) as we know it today was that our rebellion considered only the problem of tyranny in government and not the problem of tyranny (or authoritarian structures that could be taken over by criminals / psychopaths) in other sectors, and particular in global corporations. Even at the time of the American Revolt, it could be said that global corporations were in fact more powerful than the governments that were installed to run cover for them and make them look legitimate.
While “fascism” and Communism propose to “solve” this by absorbing the corporations into government, we see that all that does is create a government that is also a global corporation. Our democratic republic, meanwhile, has no precise answer to the problem of the global corporation. For sure, they are not going away. If we are to survive beyond our historically predicted demise (which is basically right now), we must solve this as James describes, in a way that is realistic, efficient, and makes sense. Right now our only real weapon is police action, which we see Trump engaging in. This is a dangerous proposition without any more workable end point in mind and explained.