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
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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The Next Chapter in the American Story
One type of story is a national story, and in this episode of the New Discourses podcast, James Lindsay makes the case that Americans have, by and large, forgotten the totality of their own story.
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The Road to Hell is Paved with Eggshells
The “walking on eggshells” feeling causes you to ‘go along to get along.’
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Why the World is the Way It Is: Cultural Relativism and Its Descendents
Relativism contends that all truth is relative except for the claim that “truth is relative.”
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“Everything Is Problematic”
My journey into the centre of a dark political world, and how I escaped.
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Biden Is Not The Room
James Lindsay recently said on Twitter that he will vote "unhappily" for Republicans including Trump in these troubled times after seeing an argument that the left should work to abolish the Constitution.
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The Poverty of “Lived Experiences”
This rhetoric is, by design, meant to paint political dissidents as myopic stooges who are unwilling to “listen to the Lived Experiences of marginalized people,” thus making them unwittingly complicit in systems of oppression.
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Understanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We live in an era of unprecedented pressure for ideologically based organizational trainings: anti-racist, racial sensitivity, unconscious bias, cultural awareness, and, perhaps most commonly, some combination of "diversity, equity, and inclusion."
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Activist Violence in Context
The real trouble with activist violence has less to do with efficacy than with democracy.
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How Social Justice Silences
Peter Boghossian outlines seven different ways that the Critical Social Justice ideology stifles free speech and discusses each with poignant examples.
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The Most Dangerous Place To Be
Most of the young people currently demolishing America’s statues were born too late to have picked up the habit from watching the attacks on statues of Lenin in the early 1990s, or of Saddam Hussein in the early 2000s.
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The Church of Social Justice
From fat studies to academics, the world appears to have been taken over by identity politics. The result is the creation of a seemingly enormous congregation of members in the church of social justice.
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Two and Two Make Four
We have to talk about 2+2. Unfortunately. Most unfortunately. This is because what looks like a simple and profoundly stupid Twitter fight must be understood in the full context in which it is playing out.
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“Anti-Racism” vs. Liberalism
There’s a difference between “anti-racism” and actually overcoming racism. Overcoming racism requires liberalism, and “anti-racism,” as it is currently being taught, can only increase it. This is most obvious when…
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The Woke Cult: James Lindsay on the Babylon Bee
James Lindsay joins Kyle and Ethan on The Babylon Bee podcast for a second time to discuss all things Social Justice, including its forays into the Christian faith.
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Hurtling Toward Totalitarianism: A Call to Action in Defense of All We Hold Dear
You are a soldier in a war being waged right now.
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How Critical Studies Led to Today’s Turmoil
On July 9th, Kevin Turner had a conversation with Dr. James Lindsay discussing the social and cultural movement that has gripped the nation since the death of George Floyd in late May.
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The Evergreening of America
Benjamin Boyce hosts a boisterous chat with James Lindsay and Mike Nayna about the issues of critical race theory, social justice, and cancel culture.
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