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Who Are We, and What Does That Mean About Politics?

When we face the question of what makes us who we are, different people have different answers. Some see ourselves as receptacles of tradition. Others see us as a self to be discovered in the world. Still others see us as blank slates who can become whatever we can dream.

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How the Friend-Enemy Distinction Poisons Politics

Carl Schmitt captured the essence of totalitarian politics in his book The Concept of the Political (1932). It is the distinction between friend and enemy. The poison of this kind of thinking is in the ugly fact that the declared enemy must be treated as the declared enemy once a political faction has declared one, and anyone who doesn't go along with that declaration declares himself one of the enemy.

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What Jewish Values Can Teach Us About Being American: Another Trip to Israel

Join James on this new episode of the New Discourses Podcast and travel with him through Israel for a second time.

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True and False or Us Versus Them?

In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay explores this idea of "us versus them" out loud and explains its relevance to politics, society, and education.

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From Transgender to Transhuman

The same arguments that justify "transgender" also justify transhuman: that who we really are does not depend on our physical body at all.

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Why Communists Do the Red-Green Alliance

As normal people who value ideological and logical consistency, we tend to find movements like the Red-Green Alliance (Communists and Islamists) and "Queers for Palestine" confusing.

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Introducing the Problem-Solving Theory of Value

What makes something valuable? How do we determine value? One hypothesis on value is famously forwarded and relied upon by the Marxists.

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Woke Interpretation and “Lived Experience”

James Lindsay revisits the topic of "lived experience" and explains how it manifests outside of Leftist enclaves and without the cutesy name.

Milestones, Vol. 2: Jahiliyyah, the False Consciousness of Islamism

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Milestones, Vol. 2: Jahiliyyah, the False Consciousness of Islamism

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay goes back into the text of Milestones to discuss this important concept and its profound parallels to Marxist Communism.

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All Roads Lead to Woke

In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay dives into this construction and how it sets up other Woke "magic spells" (like affordance traps) to get you to do their bidding.

The Book of Woke: The Production of the Woke Self

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The Book of Woke: The Production of the Woke Self

What gets called Woke, especially on the Left, is a complete worldview (or ersatz theology) that therefore provides all the usual philosophical elements.

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Ideological Psychopathology

It goes without saying at this point that "Woke" activists appear to exhibit a suite of psychopathological traits and behaviors, but why?

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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 11: Dictatorship by Reichstag Fire

An undeniable part of the Nazi Experiment is that it operated a fascist-style dictatorship for its infamous "racialist worldview."

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Saving American Liberty: All Sessions

Watch James Lindsay and Michael O’Fallon in Dallas, TX, recorded August 22–23, 2025, to learn more about this rising threat and how we can save American liberty.

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What Is Gender Trafficking?

Children are being separated from their parents by the state as a result of indoctrination in gender ideology.

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What Woke Really Means

Even though it's a term without a stable meaning as it evolved, "Woke" is increasingly coming to mean something quite specific and precise.

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What Is an American? | James Lindsay

Due to unwanted pressure from the "Woke Right," we're now facing a deliberate attempt to redefine American identity.

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Milestones, Vol. 1: Islamist Bolshevism

What is Islamism? Is it the same thing as Islam? Has it varied over time? What's its relationship to Communism, at least in our present era?

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What Werewolves Can Teach Us About Political Warfare

A small number of bad actors who have an informational advantage over a much larger population have a gigantic strategic advantage.

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Integralism, Authority, and the Refactoring of Social Order | Michael O’Fallon

Modern forms of integralism blur the distinction between spiritual and temporal power, raising concerns about conscience in diverse societies.

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