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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: On the Need for Positivity

OnlySubs: On the Need for Positivity

On this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, we'll talk about the positive branding I found on a Vermont maple syrup bottle and from the no-nonsense farmer who gave it to me: "There's nothing sweeter than Vermont liberty!"

OnlySubs: Showing Love as a Man

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OnlySubs: Showing Love as a Man

I was recently asked how a man is supposed to show love.

OnlySubs: Don't Blame Metal for Rust

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OnlySubs: Don’t Blame Metal for Rust

It's a very popular trope on the reactionary right that Marxism, Communism, Wokeness, or what-have-you in the world of progressive Leftist excesses is the logical endpoint of liberalism.

Marxism Is Regressive

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OnlySubs: Marxism Is Regressive

Progressives love to paint up Marxism as progressive.

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OnlySubs: A Treatise on Kayfabe

In this episode of my contributors-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I give a short treatise on political kayfabe and why it is so vital to understand, if not utilize, in the present postmodern political environment

OnlySubs: What to Do When You Might Be Cancelled

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OnlySubs: What to Do When You Might Be Cancelled

Cancellation is becoming rather commonplace in our Woke Marxist world, even if it doesn't have the same menace it did a year or two ago.

OnlySubs: The Relentless Woke Offensive

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OnlySubs: The Relentless Woke Offensive

The Woke are always on offense. They never back down. They never stop attempting incursions. They never stop. You must understand this about them.

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OnlySubs: A Thousand Pages of Theory for All that Exists

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I approach the idea of "a thousand pages of Theory for everything that exists" as a Woke tactic.

Wokeness as an Insurgency | OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Ep. 85

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OnlySubs: Wokeness as an Insurgency

There are a lot of ways to characterize Woke Marxism and its bid to claim institutions, but perhaps the best way is to understand it as an insurgency model with the goal of colonizing whatever institution it can get its claws into.

OnlySubs: Regaining Narrative Control

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OnlySubs: Regaining Narrative Control

I have a metric for how well we're doing against the Regime: how long it takes people to see through a narrative blitz and pull discussion back to reality

OnlySubs: What the Iron Law of Woke Projection Tells Us About Marxists

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OnlySubs: What the Iron Law of Woke Projection Tells Us About Marxists

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I explore this line of thought and illustrate even further why it is the case that the Woke Marxists do not possess the moral high ground, do not possess the evidence or the argument, and may very well be operating from a position of psychopathology.

Wokeness Rejects Limiting Principles

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OnlySubs: Wokeness Rejects Limiting Principles

We've discussed before how every Woke slope is slippery. That is, we've discussed how a commitment to social constructivism prevents Woke agendas from ever being able to say "this is far enough."

OnlySubs: The Marxist Definition of Transition

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OnlySubs: The Marxist Definition of Transition

The website marxists.org is an absolute treasure trove for people who want to understand Marxism and how Marxists think about the world.

OnlySubs: The Southern Baptist Convention and the Subordination of Scripture

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Free OnlySubs: The Southern Baptist Convention & The Subordination of Scripture

In April of 2019, the famously conservative Southern Baptist Convention adopted an infamous resolution, Resolution 9, bringing into the Convention both Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality "as an analytical tool subordinate to Scripture."

Conserving the Means of Progress

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OnlySubs: Conserving the Means of Progress

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I talk about how genuine progress is made through conserving the principles that enable it.

OnlySubs: Questioning Digital Dependence

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OnlySubs: Questioning Digital Dependence

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I use this dream and some stories from my past to raise the question of where we might find the line between technology being something that facilitates our freedom and something that makes us dependent.

Why Every Day Is January 6 Now

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Free OnlySubs: Why Every Day Is January 6 Now

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, which I'm taking out from behind the paywall and making available to everyone, I walk you through the crucial paragraphs of Marcuse's essay in light of this ridiculous and ridiculously dangerous pronouncement.

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OnlySubs: Marxists Are Not Hypocrites

People are highly attuned to pointing out hypocrisy, and so the blatant double standards the Woke and other Marxists set up for themselves is a tantalizing bait.

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OnlySubs: Based Like the Tennessee State Constitution

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I felt compelled to share a little of the very based beginning of the Tennessee state constitution with you.

On the Manufacture of Fake Consensus

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OnlySubs: On the Manufacture of Fake Consensus

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my contributors-only podcast, I go briefly into the topic of manufactured fake consensus and Woke activism.

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