5 Reasons the Book “White Fragility” is Shallow and Destructive
Among the books making the rounds on recent “must-read” book lists is White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo.
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In Defense of the Status Quo
Join Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast for a little over an hour of common sense in his liberal defense of the so-called "status quo."
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Beyond the Infinity Point
James Lindsay joins Agah Bahari on the Neohuman Podcast to discuss Critical Social Justice, Critical Theory, and God and the unknowable.
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Grievance Studies and the Nuclear Waste of Scholarship
New Discourses founder James Lindsay sits down with Matthew Garnier, host of the InTerminable podcast, to discuss the roots and relevance of the corruption of scholarship in the Critical Social Justice academic literature.
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What’s Passed Since the “Conceptual Penis”?
James Lindsay joins High Society Radio to discuss what has transpired in all the time since he and Peter Boghossian published their first (mostly unsuccessful) attempt at a hoax paper on gender studies: “The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct,” in early summer 2017.
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Chasing the Norm on Near Dark Radio
Join James Lindsay as he sits down with Jon Gower of Near Dark Radio to talk about the controversial French postmodern philosopher Michel Foucault and whether his thought and legacy can be recovered from its clear adaptations and exploitation by the Critical Social Justice movement.
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Health Equity in the Alchemy Symposiums
Join James Lindsay and Michael O'Fallon as they sit down to try to shed light on the ins and outs of 'health equity' so that you can be as informed as possible as the public conversation on the issue develops.
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Stealing the Motte: Critical Social Justice and the Principle of Charity
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, your host James Lindsay explores the principle of charity in debate and dialogue in the context of the motte-and-bailey rhetorical strategy.
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How Theory Got Cynical and Why That Sucks for Everyone
James Lindsay joins Jack Murphy on the Jack Murphy Live podcast to discuss his forthcoming book with Helen Pluckrose, Cynical Theories.
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Meeting an Antifa Apostate
On this episode of the Thinking Out Loud Podcast, James Lindsay joins host Vincent Freeman and two other guests, Bruce and Sara, to discuss the mindsets and ideologies of Critical Social Justice and the radical anarchy activist group Antifa (putatively: “anti-fascist”).
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Countering the Radical Left
James Lindsay joins Max Klinger on the E2 Review Podcast to discuss Critical Social Justice.
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What The ‘Grievance Studies Affair’ Says About Academia’s Social Justice Warriors
Today’s social justice warriors in academic fields such as gender studies share unfortunate commonalities with Adolf Hitler's 'struggle.'
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Why Do We Need New Discourses?
James Lindsay joins Obaid Omer and the Dangerous Speech podcast to discuss New Discourses, Critical Social Justice and its use of language, postmodernism as it shows in parts of today's conservatism, his latest and forthcoming books, and more.
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Postmodernism Versus Critical Social Justice
James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose join old-school postmodernist and libertarian thinker Thaddeus Russell on the Unregistered podcast.
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Age of Narratives and the Postmodern Democratic Political Regime
On this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, your host James Lindsay explores the concept of political regimes through American history.
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Explaining Critical Social Justice in Real Time
James Lindsay, founder of New Discourses, explains the ideology of Critical Social Justice by watching Anthony Magnabosco's first two videos with a student named Vanessa.
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Agora Politics: A Virality of Discourse
Join James Lindsay as he sits down on the Agora Politics podcast to discuss these issues and why he created New Discourses to help people better understand them.
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The Way Forward
New Discourses convened in October of 2019 in the National Liberal Club of London for a day-long conference titled Speaking Truth to Social Justice. There, Portland State University philosophy professor Peter Boghossian gave a rousing talk about the need to “speak truth in the face of danger,” parrhesia, as the Ancient Greeks called it, as this applies to Critical Social Justice.
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A Deep Dive Into “Critical Social Justice” & How It Took Over the Humanities
James Lindsay sits down with American Thought Leaders host Jan Jekielek to discuss Critical Social Justice, the Grievance Studies project, and neo-Marxism in education and culture at large.
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The Roots of “Woke” Culture
Woke culture continues to become ever-more relevant to people in all walks of life, and this led to a recent BBC audio-documentary featuring feminist authort Helen Lewis and produced by Craig Templeton Smith, “The Roots of ‘Woke’ Culture.”
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