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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: Critical Pedagogy Doesn’t Understand Education

OnlySubs: Critical Pedagogy Doesn't Understand Education

Critical Pedagogy is the name for the Critical Theory of education, meaning both applying Critical Theory to education and applying it in education, as in teaching students to adopt Critical Theory methodologies and ways of thinking.

OnlySubs: Critical Theory Is Applied Psychopathology

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OnlySubs: Critical Theory Is Applied Psychopathology

Drawing from various examples in the neo-Marxist and Critical Pedagogy literature, in this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I make the case that Wokeness is applied psychopathology.

OnlySubs: Wound Collecting: A Manipulative Woke Tactic

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OnlySubs: Wound Collecting: A Manipulative Woke Tactic

Wound collecting is a profoundly manipulative behavior strongly connected to malignant ideologies and psychopathologies, and it needs to be understood as such, especially in our present moment when it has so much traction and manipulates so much social currency.

Free OnlySubs: Why Critical Race Theory Is Un-American

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Free OnlySubs: Why Critical Race Theory Is Un-American

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I go through the first paragraph of Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic's Critical Race Theory: An Introduction line by line.

The Woke Slope Is Always Slippery

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OnlySubs: The Woke Slope Is Always Slippery

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I go through the reasons why I think critical, deconstructive, and dialectical slopes are always slippery slopes.

OnlySubs: Breaking the Woke Strategy

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OnlySubs: Breaking the Woke Strategy

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I take you through the top-down, bottom-up, inside-outside strategy of Woke institutional takeover and give a status report on where I think we are with challenging each of these facets.

OnlySubs: Be a Rebel: Enjoy Life

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OnlySubs: Be a Rebel: Enjoy Life

Join me to hear how the Woke and their intellectual predecessors literally have the goal of making people miserable with what is actually a pretty amazing life and the value, if we want to break away from Wokeness, of rebelling against the whole program by the simple, plain act of enjoying what we have in life as it is.

OnlySubs: Burning Through Trust

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OnlySubs: Burning Through Trust

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I explore this idea and try to encourage everyone to think through just how easily virtually all of your goodwill can be lost if you treat it irresponsibly.

OnlySubs: What We Can Learn from Basecamp

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OnlySubs: What We Can Learn from Basecamp

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I dive into the story around how Basecamp changed one simple policy and effectively ridded itself of the Woke menace.

The Trap of Negative Rapport

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OnlySubs: The Trap of Negative Rapport

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I explore the ideas of positive and negative rapport and discuss the way that Wokeness and Critical Theory seek to undermine the crucial norm that limits access to sharing negative rapport with others.

Five Ugly Truths About Critical Race Theory

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Five Ugly Truths About Critical Race Theory

Critical Race Theory is currently getting a ton of attention on the national and international stage, which is long overdue, but there are also many misconceptions about it.

OnlySubs: Entitlement and the Performative Elite

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OnlySubs: Entitlement and the Performative Elite

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I take aim at some of the cultural phenomena that arise within the bourgeoisie.

OnlySubs: On Courage and Cowardice

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OnlySubs: On Courage and Cowardice

A simple maxim that I hear again and again is "courage begets courage." It's true. Every single time someone stands up to some injustice, it makes it that much easier for another person, or several, to do the same.

OnlySubs: The Simple Lie of Systemic Racism

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OnlySubs: The Simple Lie of Systemic Racism

I've talked about what Critical Race Theory is a bunch of times and written about it all over the place, but maybe the simplest expression is that Critical Race Theory is the study of some phenomenon it names "systemic racism."

OnlySubs: Responsibility and the Wisdom of Uber

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OnlySubs: Responsibility and the Wisdom of Uber

I recently had a very interesting conversation in the back of an Uber.

OnlySubs: Anticipating Post-Woke Depression

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OnlySubs: Anticipating Post-Woke Depression

Complicity in large-scale evil that causes great damage has consequences.

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A Manifesto for the Based

The based aren’t about to live by ridiculous lies because they’ll be too busy laughing the bottom out from under them.

Neoreaction and Oversteer

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OnlySubs: Neoreaction and Oversteer

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I discuss why I think this movement, while often insightful about the Woke problem, does not represent an appropriate response to that problem but, instead, an overreaction that very well may flip the car.

Critical Race Theory: A Two-page Overview

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Critical Race Theory: A Two-page Overview

Critical Race Theory proceeds upon a number of dubious assumptions and by means of a variety of questionable methods.

OnlySubs: Equal Access to a Pile of Rubble

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OnlySubs: Equal Access to a Pile of Rubble

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I walk you through the idea of how the Woke ideology tries to frame creating equalizing outcomes as though it's about equalizing access.

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