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James Lindsay

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An American-born author, mathematician, and professional troublemaker, Dr. James Lindsay has written six books spanning a range of subjects including religion, the philosophy of science and postmodern theory. He is a leading expert on Critical Race Theory, which leads him to reject it completely. He is the founder of New Discourses and currently promoting his new book "Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody," which is currently being translated into more than fifteen languages.

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OnlySubs: Dealing With Demoralization

Dealing With Demoralization

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I talk about demoralization and give some ideas of things you can do to resist its exhausting and depressing effects. Join me in not giving up!

The First Worthy Criticism of Cynical Theories

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The First Worthy Criticism of Cynical Theories

If you have ever wondered about the backstory of the creation of the "Feminist Mein Kampf" paper really was, including why its authors did it, you won't want to miss this long-form discussion and rare response to yet another underinformed critic of Lindsay, Boghossian, and Pluckrose's work.

OnlySubs: There Is No Evidence for Critical Race Theory

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OnlySubs: There Is No Evidence for Critical Race Theory

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I make a short argument that not only is there no evidence for Critical Race Theory, there cannot be evidence for Critical Race Theory, by virtue of the way that it has arranged its basic assumptions.

The Woke Don't Understand Society

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OnlySubs: The Woke Don’t Understand Society

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I make the case that (left-leaning) academics are likely to be biased toward believing the institution is the fundamental unit of society, and this is why so many of their ideas are so disconnected from reality and, ultimately, statist in orientation.

You Must Interact with Reality

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OnlySubs: You Must Interact with Reality

I'm giving advice again, right here on James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast. This time, it's about interacting with reality, which is necessary and humbling and, most importantly, an important vaccine against bad abstract ideas.

OnlySubs: Why You Should Do Difficult Things

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OnlySubs: Why You Should Do Difficult Things

in this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I offer you this advice: do something difficult, and do it to succeed. Challenge yourself, and don't give up. Endure. Join me to hear more about it.

OnlySubs: How Wokeness Makes Conversations Impossible

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OnlySubs: How Wokeness Makes Conversations Impossible

Join me in this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, to understand more about this psychological reality to conversations, especially with the Woke, and what you might be able to do about it.

The Values of a Post-Woke World

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The Values of a Post-Woke World

If we continue fighting back—for pushing back is no longer enough—intelligently and firmly against the ideology of Critical Social Justice and the Woke movement it has spawned, we will find ourselves on the road to a post-Woke world, and it is not yet clear what that might look like.

OnlySubs: Critical Theory and Aufheben der Kultur

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OnlySubs: Critical Theory and Aufheben der Kultur

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I try to provide a short introduction to the concept of aufheben der Kultur, building on a recent episode of this same podcast that talks about aufheben in greater generality.

OnlySubs: The Important Concept of Aufheben

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OnlySubs: The Important Concept of Aufheben

Join me in this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, for a short introductory discussion on the concept of aufheben and its applications in Critical Theory and beyond, including in Wokeness.

OnlySubs: The Three Tactics of Wokeness

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OnlySubs: The Three Tactics of Wokeness

Join me on this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, as I outline these three tactics, where they come from, how they work, and what you might be able to do about them.

OnlySubs: Is Wokeness French or American?

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OnlySubs: Is Wokeness French or American?

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I try to go into the complicated relationship between French, American, and German ideas (and some British and Australian ones) as they have come together to form Wokeness, dipping even into Marx's reliance upon Rousseau, who the French certainly can't deny.

OnlySubs: Woke Social Snake Oil

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OnlySubs: Woke Social Snake Oil

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I walk through the idea of snake oil and illustrate how Wokeness is, in fact, a social snake oil that manufactures a disease (systemic oppression) so that it can sell us a "cure" that only makes us sicker (Critical Theory).

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A Letter Supporting a Bill to Ban Critical Race Theory

The state of New Hampshire is trying to advance a bill in its state house of representatives (HB544) that mirrors the executive order President Trump issued "against Critical Race Theory," which is to say against the divisive (and racist/neoracist) tenets at the heart of Critical Race Theory and so-called "diversity" training sessions based upon it.

OnlySubs: Wokeness and the Dark Side of Competition

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OnlySubs: Wokeness and the Dark Side of Competition

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I explain how Wokeness is designed to rationalize and justify a certain particularly unfortunate type of negative competition.

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OnlySubs: Liberalism is an Unstable Societal Equilibrium

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I discuss the idea of classical or philosophical liberalism through that framing (after introducing the basic physics of stable and unstable equilibria).

OnlySubs: Avoiding the Woke Swamp

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OnlySubs: Avoiding the Woke Swamp

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I try to use the analogy of swamps and gators (or crocodiles, if you prefer) to describe part of the rhetorical jungle we live in today and give some suggestions for what you can do to stay out of the water.

Why the Wokish Can't See Woke Harms | OnlySubs Ep. 14

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OnlySubs: Why the Wokish Can’t See Woke Harms

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, I dive into the question by drawing upon psychological insights relevant to identity and the so-called "Backfire Effect" to provide an explanation and, hopefully, some useful recommendations for helping the Wokish people in your life learn to see the Woke problem for what it is.

NO! Critical Race Theory Does NOT Continue the Civil Rights Movement

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NO! Critical Race Theory Does NOT Continue the Civil Rights Movement

Critical Race Theorists like to claim that they have inherited and continue the noble legacy and justice work of the Civil Rights Movement, but this is an abject lie.

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How the Woke Fail the Paradox of Tolerance

In this fourth and final part of his four-part lecture series about "Repressive Tolerance," James Lindsay takes the reader from the darkest point of the essay, which was the exciting climax of Part 3, through the end of Marcuse's argument.

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