New Discourses, Author at New Discourses - Page 21 of 24

Audio

Critical Race Praxis and the Weakness of Liberals

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay breaks down the distinction and intrinsic relationship between Critical Theory and Critical Praxis and thus why almost the entire discussion of what to do about this problem coming from liberal quarters misses the point and remains ineffective.

The Woke Manipulation of Democracy

Audio

The Woke Manipulation of Democracy

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay walks you through more pieces of the Woke, neo-Marxist, and Marxist literature to make the case that when the Woke are calling for "democracy," they mean something that demands a very radical agenda along with it.

A Biological Foundation for Socialism?

Audio

A Biological Foundation for Socialism?

In this first part of the series, James Lindsay reads through the introduction to the essay and its first of four parts, "A Biological Foundation for Socialism?"

The Virus of Critical Social Justice

Audio

The Virus of Critical Social Justice

It is not normally appropriate to liken one's ideological opponents to something like a virus, but what should we do when the people who hold that ideology liken themselves to viruses like HIV, Ebola, and SARS?

Audio

Why You Can Be Transgender But Not Transracial

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay goes through all of the heavy Theoretical detail to explain why it is, from within Theory, that you can be transgender but not transracial.

A Summary of Neo-Marxism

Audio

A Summary of Neo-Marxism

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, join James Lindsay as he reads through and adds nuance and detail to the relevant "neo-Marxism" entry in his Critical Social Justice Encyclopedia so that you can better understand where Wokeness comes from and how it thinks and operates.

Hegel, Wokeness, and the Dialectical Faith of Leftism

Audio

Hegel, Wokeness, and the Dialectical Faith of Leftism

In this episode, Lindsay takes considerable time explaining Hegel's view of dialectical thought and then reveals in many examples, reaching up to the present day, how consistently the dialectic appears as the functional underpinning of Leftism ever since, at the latest, the 1830s.

Bourgeois Overproduction and the Problem of the Fake Elite

Audio

Bourgeois Overproduction and the Problem of the Fake Elite

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay walks through the idea of elite overproduction to focus in on the operant problem that it leads to, bourgeois overproduction, and posits that this problem is the seat of the Woke menace and many of the large-scale ills that have arisen in similar form over the past few centuries in prosperous societies.

Audio

How to End Vaccine Hesitancy

Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, in which he tries to articulate that principled argument for vaccine hesitancy and thus also the path away from it, should our institutional authorities want to achieve it.

The Woke Rejection of the Reasonable

Audio

The Woke Rejection of the Reasonable

Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses podcast to learn about the long history of unreason in Wokeness and even its all-out rejection of the notion that anyone or any position at all can be reasonable in any meaningful sense.

Equity and the Unmaking of UT Austin

Audio

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.

Authenticity and the Woke Crisis of the Real

Audio

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.

Communism Doesn't Know How

Audio

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.

The Woke Goal: Everything Serves Theory

Audio

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.

Audio

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).

The Dawn of Medical Lysenkoism

Audio

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.

There Is No Good Part of Hitler's Mein Kampf

Audio

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.

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

Audio

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.

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

Audio

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.

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

Articles

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.

Input your search keywords and press Enter.