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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: Why You’re Not Failing

I recently had an encounter at a conference in which a woman told me she feels like a failure in her efforts against the Woke problem in her own community. I related something surprising to her: I feel like a failure all the time.

The Reformers: A New Film About the Grievance Studies Affair

The Reformers: A Film About the Grievance Studies Affair

The Grievance Studies Affair has never been more relevant. Back in 2017 and 2018, when we did it, it was obvious that the part of academia sometimes called the “theoretical humanities” had been given over essentially wholly to what we dubbed Grievance Studies—that is, Woke Identity Marxism.

OnlySubs: "I Can't Do This Anymore"

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OnlySubs: “I Can’t Do This Anymore”

I hear it all the time. "I'm tired; I can't do this anymore." I thought it too. I spent most of the last two years thinking it over and over again almost every day, but I was wrong.

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Intersectionality Is American Maoism

It isn’t possible to discuss Intersectionality without starting with Kimberlé Crenshaw, who named it. Like with most Woke Marxist ideas, though, Intersectionality is recycled and repackaged, more than once. Crenshaw is therefore the wrong person to discuss to talk about the issue, but she’s a starting place.

The Workings of the Woke Cult

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The Workings of the Woke Cult

It has become relatively obvious that what goes by the term “Woke” refers to having been initiated into a cult.

Wokeness and the Structure of Cults

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Wokeness and the Structure of Cults

It has become relatively obvious that what goes by the term “Woke” refers to having been initiated into a cult.

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OnlySubs: Family Versus the Woke Cult

Many of us, maybe most of us now, have lost at least one immediate family member to some aspect of the Woke Marxist mind virus that's torn through our culture. This experience is painful enough on its own, but it's extra frustrating for people who believe in the power of the ties of family.

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OnlySubs: Psychological Black Holes

When you dig a hole in the ground and decide to fill it in, the hole gets smaller, right? That's not the case with black holes. When you put material into a black hole, it actually gets more massive, thus becomes more of a black hole.

Free OnlySubs: Is Michael O'Fallon a Christian Nationalist?

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Free OnlySubs: Is Michael O’Fallon a Christian Nationalist?

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I discuss Christian Nationalism and take you back behind the shadowy curtains and tell you a bit about how Michael and I came to do so much work together.

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OnlySubs: Where’d You Go, James Lindsay?

This episode of the James Lindsay OnlySubs podcast (which is my subscribers-only podcast) is a huge mea culpa on that along with a useful explanation of what I've been up to when I'm not producing the other content you're seeing.

James Lindsay Goes to Oxford

James Lindsay Goes to Oxford

Imagine my surprise. Late last summer, I got an email from the Oxford Union formally inviting me to debate the proposition “This House Believes Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far.”

OnlySubs: Does Media Matters Want Drag Floyd?

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OnlySubs: Does Media Matters Want Drag Floyd?

Media Matters, ever vigilant, was so triggered that they published an article about me on the subject before we even finished the show and left the stage! Why would they do that? Are they telling us they do want a Drag Floyd event and that I've exposed their schemes? Since the Iron Law of Woke Projection never misses, we can assume it's probably so.

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OnlySubs: A Meditation on Being Joyful Warriors

If you don't know that the moms in Moms for Liberty refer to themselves as "joyful warriors," I want to bring that to your attention.

OnlySubs: A Logic of Positive and Negative Competition

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OnlySubs: A Logic of Positive and Negative Competition

Competition has two forms: positive and negative. In positive competition, competitors try to improve themselves to win. In negative competition, they try to cut down their opponents instead of bettering themselves.

OnlySubs: Social and Parasocial Relationships

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OnlySubs: Social and Parasocial Relationships

In the world of social media, we've had a huge expansion of our parasocial space without much expansion of our truly social space.

OnlySubs: Reciprocal Submission and the Impossibility of Socialism

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OnlySubs: Reciprocal Submission and the Impossibility of Socialism

Socialism doesn't work. One key reason why is because it requires the voluntary mutual submission of every individual in society to every other individual in society.

OnlySubs: Stop Wanting Fake Friends

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OnlySubs: Stop Wanting Fake Friends

One of the main ways we got into this Woke Marxist mess in the first place is that people started to care way too much about what their fake friends think of them.

How to Kill a Science: The Process of Dialectical Inversion

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How to Kill a Science: The Process of Dialectical Inversion

One of the “key goals” of the Woke Marxist movement is to "decenter the natural sciences." How on Earth is someone supposed to “decenter” the natural sciences—and from what, and why?

CRT, Queer Theory, and Marxism by Any Other Name

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CRT, Queer Theory, and Marxism by Any Other Name

As a theory of “political economy,” Marxism isn’t at all complicated. At the very bottom, it is the belief that human beings are fundamentally social beings whose true nature shapes and is shaped by their societies.

The Riddle of History, Solved

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The Riddle of History, Solved

According to Karl Marx, Communism, true and proper, is the self-conscious solution to “the riddle of history.”

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