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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: Is Wokeness French or American?

OnlySubs: Is Wokeness French or American?

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I try to go into the complicated relationship between French, American, and German ideas (and some British and Australian ones) as they have come together to form Wokeness, dipping even into Marx's reliance upon Rousseau, who the French certainly can't deny.

OnlySubs: Woke Social Snake Oil

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OnlySubs: Woke Social Snake Oil

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I walk through the idea of snake oil and illustrate how Wokeness is, in fact, a social snake oil that manufactures a disease (systemic oppression) so that it can sell us a "cure" that only makes us sicker (Critical Theory).

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A Letter Supporting a Bill to Ban Critical Race Theory

The state of New Hampshire is trying to advance a bill in its state house of representatives (HB544) that mirrors the executive order President Trump issued "against Critical Race Theory," which is to say against the divisive (and racist/neoracist) tenets at the heart of Critical Race Theory and so-called "diversity" training sessions based upon it.

OnlySubs: Wokeness and the Dark Side of Competition

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OnlySubs: Wokeness and the Dark Side of Competition

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I explain how Wokeness is designed to rationalize and justify a certain particularly unfortunate type of negative competition.

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OnlySubs: Liberalism is an Unstable Societal Equilibrium

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I discuss the idea of classical or philosophical liberalism through that framing (after introducing the basic physics of stable and unstable equilibria).

OnlySubs: Avoiding the Woke Swamp

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OnlySubs: Avoiding the Woke Swamp

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I try to use the analogy of swamps and gators (or crocodiles, if you prefer) to describe part of the rhetorical jungle we live in today and give some suggestions for what you can do to stay out of the water.

Why the Wokish Can't See Woke Harms | OnlySubs Ep. 14

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OnlySubs: Why the Wokish Can’t See Woke Harms

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, I dive into the question by drawing upon psychological insights relevant to identity and the so-called "Backfire Effect" to provide an explanation and, hopefully, some useful recommendations for helping the Wokish people in your life learn to see the Woke problem for what it is.

NO! Critical Race Theory Does NOT Continue the Civil Rights Movement

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NO! Critical Race Theory Does NOT Continue the Civil Rights Movement

Critical Race Theorists like to claim that they have inherited and continue the noble legacy and justice work of the Civil Rights Movement, but this is an abject lie.

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How the Woke Fail the Paradox of Tolerance

In this fourth and final part of his four-part lecture series about "Repressive Tolerance," James Lindsay takes the reader from the darkest point of the essay, which was the exciting climax of Part 3, through the end of Marcuse's argument.

OnlySubs: Blue-checked Psychopathy

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OnlySubs: Blue-checked Psychopathy

Join me as I talk specifically about the verification of unlicensed medical doctors taking to Twitter with their blue checks and how their verification as such is dangerously misleading.

OnlySubs: The Wokish Clique of Very Smart People

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OnlySubs: The Wokish Clique of Very Smart People

In this episode of OnlySubs, my subscribers-only short-form podcast, I dive into the cultural phenomenon of Very Smart People as a kind of clique of intellectuals that is vigorously gatekept.

OnlySubs: Call Them "Neoracists"

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OnlySubs: Call Them “Neoracists”

I want to introduce a new strategy and term to you. It's simple: call Critical Race Theorists and its activists "neoracists."

The Lockpick to the Gates of Western Civilization

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OnlySubs: The Lockpick to the Gates of Western Civilization

We've entered into a strange phase in history where, because of the actions of the Biden administration, we're about to see an unprecedented number of people become aware of the problem of Wokeness, which they couldn't see before, ostensibly because of Trump.

OnlySubs: Woke Psychopathologies in Psychotherapy

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OnlySubs: Woke Psychopathologies in Psychotherapy

Y'all, I got mad. It's not that often that something Woke makes me angry, but I saw an example that just really got me going.

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OnlySubs: Four Roads to Deal with the Woke

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscriber-only podcast, I try to explain that there are exactly four options available to people in dealing with the Woke.

A Spanish Vaccine for Woke Bullying | OnlySubs Ep. 6

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OnlySubs: A Spanish Vaccine for Woke Bullying

I was recently asked why you don't see the Woke going after the Spanish colonizers of history, who arguably had the most brutal colonial project of all European colonialism.

What Is Critical Race Theory?

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What Is Critical Race Theory?

I’ve been asked a million times for a short introduction to Critical Race Theory that hits the high points in a quick, straightforward way.

Psychopathy and Social Media

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OnlySubs: Psychopathy and Social Media

Since the problem of totalitarianism hinges significantly on mismanaging psychopathy (and its tendency to create self-suited pseudo-realities), totalitarian ideologies can be expected to bloom when a huge new opportunity like social media arrives on the scene.

OnlySubs: The Capitol and the Origins of Freedom

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OnlySubs: The Capitol and the Origins of Freedom

I talk about something I think is worth saying about what happened at the Capitol Building on January 6th at greater length than normal for an OnlySubs episode, running just over the half-hour mark.

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OnlySubs: “Diversity” Is a PR Con

The whole "diversity" industry produces no tangible product, adds nothing to anyone's bottom line, does nothing to get your product to your customers, has no evidence supporting it (and some against it), is expensive, and creates problems in your company.

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