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Introducing Counter Wokecraft

New Discourses is excited to present the first publication in its book imprint, Counter Wokecraft: A Field Manual for Combatting the Woke in the University and Beyond, by Charles Pincourt with James Lindsay.

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Protest and Paranoia

In this episode, James Lindsay walks you through their literature again, showing you that protest is the only method they intend to bring to the table. That protest is rooted in a profound paranoia that pervades all of Critical Theory, and thus the entire Woke movement can be summarized as being one of little more than protest and paranoia.

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Welcome to the Second Enlightenment

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay walks us through a view that breaks out of our limited historical parallax and considers the question of what's going on around us in a broader frame. What he sees is the dawn of the Second Enlightenment, which will change the world in unbelievable ways for the better if it can set the world ablaze and spread its light.

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Sustainability: The Tyranny of the 21st Century

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Sustainability: The Tyranny of the 21st Century

Sustainability is going to be the buzzword of the century. Everywhere we turn, we hear about sustainable practices in business and industry, sustainable foods and agriculture, sustainable energy, and so on.

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The Birth of Identity Marxism as Critical Theory's New Proletariat

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The Birth of Identity Marxism as Critical Theory’s New Proletariat

Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast to hear it straight from the sources and to understand more about how we got to where we are today.

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Herbert Marcuse and the Catastrophe of Solidarity

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Herbert Marcuse and the Catastrophe of Solidarity

In this episode, join James as he reads through the final (shortest) part of this essay and connects it to the features of today's clownish world, from Antifa and other radical activism to divisive identity politics to stakeholder capitalism and sustainability metrics.

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The Only Thing That Isn't Systemically Racist

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The Only Thing That Isn’t Systemically Racist

The more one reads of Herbert Marcuse, the father of the New Left, the less there is to recommend his ideas and more there is to recommend learning about them.

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Marcuse's Subverting Forces in Transition

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Marcuse’s Subverting Forces in Transition

The more one reads of Herbert Marcuse, the father of the New Left, the less there is to recommend his ideas and more there is to recommend learning about them.

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How to Make a Critical Theory Out of Anything

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How to Make a Critical Theory Out of Anything

Join James in this episode to hear how ridiculously simple and absurd it is so you can protect yourself from Critical Theories in other lines of thought.

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Herbert Marcuse’s “New Sensibility”

So that you can better understand the moment we find ourselves in, James Lindsay has been reading "An Essay on Liberation" for the New Discourses Podcast in full, with his explanation and commentary. This is the second part of that series, reading through part two of Marcuse's infamous essay, "A New Sensibility."

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Critical Race Praxis and the Weakness of Liberals

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Critical Race Praxis and the Weakness of Liberals

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay breaks down the distinction and intrinsic relationship between Critical Theory and Critical Praxis and thus why almost the entire discussion of what to do about this problem coming from liberal quarters misses the point and remains ineffective.

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The Woke Manipulation of Democracy

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay walks you through more pieces of the Woke, neo-Marxist, and Marxist literature to make the case that when the Woke are calling for "democracy," they mean something that demands a very radical agenda along with it.

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A Biological Foundation for Socialism?

In this first part of the series, James Lindsay reads through the introduction to the essay and its first of four parts, "A Biological Foundation for Socialism?"

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The Virus of Critical Social Justice

It is not normally appropriate to liken one's ideological opponents to something like a virus, but what should we do when the people who hold that ideology liken themselves to viruses like HIV, Ebola, and SARS?

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Why You Can Be Transgender But Not Transracial

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay goes through all of the heavy Theoretical detail to explain why it is, from within Theory, that you can be transgender but not transracial.

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A Summary of Neo-Marxism

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, join James Lindsay as he reads through and adds nuance and detail to the relevant "neo-Marxism" entry in his Critical Social Justice Encyclopedia so that you can better understand where Wokeness comes from and how it thinks and operates.

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Hegel, Wokeness, and the Dialectical Faith of Leftism

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Hegel, Wokeness, and the Dialectical Faith of Leftism

In this episode, Lindsay takes considerable time explaining Hegel's view of dialectical thought and then reveals in many examples, reaching up to the present day, how consistently the dialectic appears as the functional underpinning of Leftism ever since, at the latest, the 1830s.

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Bourgeois Overproduction and the Problem of the Fake Elite

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Bourgeois Overproduction and the Problem of the Fake Elite

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay walks through the idea of elite overproduction to focus in on the operant problem that it leads to, bourgeois overproduction, and posits that this problem is the seat of the Woke menace and many of the large-scale ills that have arisen in similar form over the past few centuries in prosperous societies.

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How to End Vaccine Hesitancy

Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, in which he tries to articulate that principled argument for vaccine hesitancy and thus also the path away from it, should our institutional authorities want to achieve it.

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The Woke Rejection of the Reasonable

Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses podcast to learn about the long history of unreason in Wokeness and even its all-out rejection of the notion that anyone or any position at all can be reasonable in any meaningful sense.

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Introducing Counter Wokecraft

Protest and Paranoia

Welcome to the Second Enlightenment

Sustainability: The Tyranny of the 21st Century

The Birth of Identity Marxism as Critical Theory’s New Proletariat

Herbert Marcuse and the Catastrophe of Solidarity

The Only Thing That Isn’t Systemically Racist

Why You Can Be Transgender But Not Transracial

A Summary of Neo-Marxism

Hegel, Wokeness, and the Dialectical Faith of Leftism

Bourgeois Overproduction and the Problem of the Fake Elite

How to End Vaccine Hesitancy

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