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Paulo Freire’s Politics of Education and a New Hope

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, join James as he dives into the introduction to Paulo Freire's 1985 book, The Politics of Education, in order to better understand Freire and his influence.

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The True History of Intersectionality

Intersectionality is usually credited to Kim Crenshaw, who coined the term as well as "Critical Race Theory" in 1989. It has an older history, however.

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How Education Turned Critical

In this episode, second in this series, James Lindsay reads through the book that documents this horrific turn, The Critical Turn in Education, by Marxian education professor Isaac Gottesman, and makes clear exactly how our educational systems were deliberately and strategically turned Marxist over the last half century.

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Groomer Schools 3: The Creation of an American Red Guard

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Groomer Schools 3: The Creation of an American Red Guard

Here, in the third part of the series, Lindsay puts these two pieces together, explains their purpose, and illustrates how Critical Race Theory works alongside Queer Theory (grooming) for a blatantly Maoist purpose: to create an American Red Guard meant to overthrow our society and start all over from a new Year Zero.

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Five Key Points to Understand About Critical Race Theory

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Five Key Points to Understand About Critical Race Theory

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay boils down Critical Race Theory to five simple points that are easily understood and easily communicated.

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Education’s New Marxist Commitments

In this first episode in this wide-ranging series, Lindsay dives into the new commitments Critical Pedagogy demands of teachers and students in the new Regime.

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Meaning and the Necessity of Theology

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay, perhaps an unlikely host for this subject, takes on Newman's argument and, in fact, agrees that a mature theology must sit at the center of any vital and healthy society, including whatever institution resides at the heart of its intellectual life.

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A Brief History of Identity Marxism

The ideology that is most conveniently identified as "Wokeness" is much more accurately described by the phrase Identity Marxism.

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Groomer Schools 2: Queer Futurity and the Sexual Abuse of Your Children

In this follow-up episode, Lindsay reads through an academic paper at the intersection of early childhood education and Queer Theory, two subjects that should never be mixed.

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Groomer Schools 1: The Long Cultural Marxist History of Sex Education

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Groomer Schools 1: The Long Cultural Marxist History of Sex Education

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, join James Lindsay as he explains the long history of the sexual grooming that has come into our schools through Critical Gender Theory and Queer Theory as they have crept into educational programs.

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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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How Education Turned Critical

Groomer Schools 3: The Creation of an American Red Guard

Five Key Points to Understand About Critical Race Theory

Education’s New Marxist Commitments

Meaning and the Necessity of Theology

A Brief History of Identity Marxism

Groomer Schools 2: Queer Futurity and the Sexual Abuse of Your Children

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

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