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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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Coronavirus Life: Will Things Be the Same Again?

“Life will never be the same again.” We hear this over and over again with regard to the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic is having on us, even though we’re only weeks into the pandemic.

Critical Theories: A Virus on a Liberal Body Politic

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Critical Theories: A Virus on a Liberal Body Politic

For this “virus,” we need a liberal immune response (critical thinking) that minimizes its influence while keeping the liberal body politic intact and healthy.

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James Lindsay Discovers Decolonizing Graphic Design

In February, I discovered an article on Twitter about “decolonizing graphic design,” published in the summer of last year. These sorts of articles are incredibly useful for showing exactly what’s going on in the Critical Social Justice mindset once you know how to read them, and this one doesn’t disappoint.

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Liberal Reflections from the National Archives: Hope, Pride, and Two American Tales

Though I’m no history buff myself, that history was part of why I was so excited to get to take the trip and, while there, to set aside time to take a leisurely tour of the National Archives, which I haven’t had a chance to visit since I was a kid.

Language Matters: Why I’m Creating Translations from the Wokish

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Language Matters: Why I’m Creating Translations from the Wokish

The point of language, to the best of my understanding, is to create shared intentions between the communicators involved.

Naming the Enemy: Critical Social Justice

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Naming the Enemy: Critical Social Justice

Over the last few years, it has become apparent that, for whatever nobility and moral worth lies in the project called “social justice,” something has gone badly wrong with the ideological movement on the far left that repeatedly calls for—or, more accurately, demands—it.

Welcome to New Discourses

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Welcome to New Discourses

New Discourses centers upon exposing, explaining, and articulating alternatives to anything that attempts to constrain our discourses.

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Freedom of Speech and the Fallacy of Demanding to be Heard

To insist that defenders of freedom of speech must listen to you is to misunderstand the concepts of freedom and the marketplace of ideas.

Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship

Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship

January 22, 2020
Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian

Something has gone wrong in the university—especially in certain fields within the humanities. Scholarship based less upon finding truth and more upon attending to social grievances has become firmly established.

Identity Politics Does Not Continue the Work of the Civil Rights Movements

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Identity Politics Does Not Continue the Work of the Civil Rights Movements

It is nearly beyond dispute that the Civil Rights Movement, second-wave liberal feminism, and Gay Pride were liberal projects, both in the broad philosophical sense and in the narrower meaning that arises within contemporary politics.

A Principled Defense of the University

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A Principled Defense of the University

Despite some broken fields, the university is one of humanity's crowning achievements and it must not fall to the reactionary right.

A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity

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A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity

Supporters of Modernity, whatever their political orientation, should unite against the anti-modernists.

Teaching to Transgress: Rage and Entitlement at Evergreen College

January 20, 2020
Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay and Mike Nayna

What happened just under two years ago at Evergreen State College needs to be seen to be believed. It also needs to be made sense of because, without an understanding…

The Influence of Anti-Racist Scholarship-Activism on Evergreen College

The Influence of Anti-Racist Scholarship-Activism on Evergreen College

This belief system worked its way into Evergreen State College and destroyed all that it once stood for.

The Guru Appeal of Jordan Peterson in Our Post-Everything World

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The Guru Appeal of Jordan Peterson in Our Post-Everything World

Jordan Peterson’s star appeal isn’t curious at all to anyone who understands the inner mechanics of religious movements.

Should Universities Teach Conspiracy Theories as Knowledge?

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Should Universities Teach Conspiracy Theories as Knowledge?

Should there be university departments and courses, and should there be researchers and academic journals, devoted to conspiracy theories?

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Are Academics Cowards? The Grip of Grievance Studies and the Sunk Costs of Academic Pursuit

There is much that should be said about the ways in which the dominant Social Justice ideology has negative impacts upon the university, free expression, academic freedom and, especially, the sciences.

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Check Your Progressive Privilege: John Rawls vs Moral Relativism

In 1971, liberal political philosopher John Rawls proposed in his influential book 'A Theory of Justice' what is perhaps the most famous and compelling progressive thought experiment ever considered.

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