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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.
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.
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Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship
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.
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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.
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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.
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A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity
Supporters of Modernity, whatever their political orientation, should unite against the anti-modernists.
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Teaching to Transgress: Rage and Entitlement at Evergreen College
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…
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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.
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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.
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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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