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Equity and the Unmaking of UT Austin

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay takes this jargon-heavy plan and reads through it, breaking it down so that people outside of the inner circle of UT Austin's diversicracy can make sense of what these plans entail.

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Authenticity and the Woke Crisis of the Real

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Authenticity and the Woke Crisis of the Real

In this episode of the New Discourses podcast, join James Lindsay for a detailed discussion of the crisis of authenticity at the heart of the Woke project and its predecessors as well as a discussion of what it means to approach authenticity for yourself.

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Communism Doesn’t Know How

On this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay gives an example of how a contemporary police abolitionist activist has made almost exactly this same argument perfectly explicitly and walks you through how you can spot it for what it is.

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The Woke Goal: Everything Serves Theory

What is the end-game of the Woke ideology? It's a hard question to answer, mostly because it's hard to tell where it will stop, but a proximate answer to that question is easy and needs to be understood.

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A Values-Based Approach to Leaving Wokeness Behind

Join James in this episode of the New Discourses podcast, wherein he discusses why these are the right values as well as why we should hold the narrow way against other competitors in the space that will not produce results as good, including both the Very Smart "respectability" (blue pill) approach and the relatively hopeless "post-liberal" or "neoreactionary" approach (black pill, mostly).

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The Dawn of Medical Lysenkoism

The threat of Medical Lysenkoism is rapidly growing around us already, and we have to take it seriously and demand it be put to a halt.

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There Is No Good Part of Hitler's Mein Kampf

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There Is No Good Part of Hitler’s Mein Kampf

If you have ever wondered about the backstory of the creation of the "Feminist Mein Kampf" paper really was, including why its authors did it, you won't want to miss this long-form discussion and rare response to yet another underinformed critic of Lindsay, Boghossian, and Pluckrose's work.

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The End of Civil Rights in Kimberlé Crenshaw's "Mapping the Margins"

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The End of Civil Rights in Kimberlé Crenshaw’s “Mapping the Margins”

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay continues his abridged reading of Kimberlé Crenshaw's famous (or infamous) paper, "Mapping the Margins," which appeared in the Stanford Law Review in 1991.

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Forging the Woke One Ring: Kimberlé Crenshaw's "Mapping the Margins"

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Forging the Woke One Ring: Kimberlé Crenshaw’s “Mapping the Margins”

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay reads through the introduction to "Mapping the Margins" and offers his commentary on the paper and its role as the birthplace (though not gestation) of the Woke movement and, as he and Helen Pluckrose named it in Cynical Theories, applied postmodernism.

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The University of California Drifts toward Conformism: The Challenges of Representation and the Climate for Academic Freedom in the Country’s Greatest Public Research University

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The University of California Drifts toward Conformism: The Challenges of Representation and the Climate for Academic Freedom in the Country’s Greatest Public Research University

In this essay, we address the consequences of the University of California’s policies to address racial disparities and its support for social justice activism as influences on its commitment to academic freedom and other intellectual values.

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Aufheben der Dr. Seuss

Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast to dig into the Critical Dr. Seuss academic literature to see where this Aufheben der Dr Seuss comes from and how it works.

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Critical Theorists as Grand Inquisitors: The Logic of "Repressive Tolerance"

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Critical Theorists as Grand Inquisitors: The Logic of “Repressive 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.

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Repressive Tolerance: Left Good, Right Bad, What Could Go Wrong?

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Repressive Tolerance: Left Good, Right Bad, What Could Go Wrong?

In this third part of James Lindsay's lecture series on Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance," we see how the essay takes a particularly dark turn.

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One Pill, Two Pill, Red Pill, Blue Pill: Herbert Marcuse and the Administered Society

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One Pill, Two Pill, Red Pill, Blue Pill: Herbert Marcuse and the Administered Society

In this second part of his annotated reading of Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance," James Lindsay reads and explains the portion of the essay where Marcuse defines the "administered society" that he claims we live in.

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Is James Lindsay Really a Trumper?! | OnlySubs Ep. 10

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OnlySubs: Is James Lindsay Really a Trumper?!

In light of his decision to vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 election, what does James Lindsay have to say about Trump now?

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How Not to Resolve the Paradox of Tolerance

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How Not to Resolve the Paradox of Tolerance

The logic of the left today is overwhelmingly rooted in a single essay published in 1965 by the neo-Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse.

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Antonio Gramsci, Cultural Marxism, Wokeness, and Leninism 4.0

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Antonio Gramsci, Cultural Marxism, Wokeness, and Leninism 4.0

If you want to understand the present moment, especially how similar Wokeness seems to Mao's Cultural Revolution, you have to understand the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci.

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The Birth of a New American Mythology

We are witnessing the birth of a new national mythology in America, and it is not good news.

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The Nature of Pseudo-Reality

The pseudo-reality holds as its North Star a Utopian vision that aligns with artificial resolutions to their inability to cope with reality as it is, and it thereby attracts others who have similar issues.

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Philip Guston (Not) Now: The Impact Argument

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Philip Guston (Not) Now: The Impact Argument

Perhaps it was the lack of scholarly rigor on the part of the curators who failed to prove definitively that Guston was not a racist? That is not the case either.

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