James Lindsay Goes to Oxford
Imagine my surprise. Late last summer, I got an email from the Oxford Union formally inviting me to debate the proposition “This House Believes Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far.”
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How to Kill a Science: The Process of Dialectical Inversion
One of the “key goals” of the Woke Marxist movement is to "decenter the natural sciences." How on Earth is someone supposed to “decenter” the natural sciences—and from what, and why?
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CRT, Queer Theory, and Marxism by Any Other Name
As a theory of “political economy,” Marxism isn’t at all complicated. At the very bottom, it is the belief that human beings are fundamentally social beings whose true nature shapes and is shaped by their societies.
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The Riddle of History, Solved
According to Karl Marx, Communism, true and proper, is the self-conscious solution to “the riddle of history.”
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The Many Faces of Marxism
There’s a great and frustrating irony about Marxism. On the one hand, it is extremely simple—almost cartoonishly so. On the other hand, millions of pages of extremely complicated writing exist trying to make it true.
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Open Letter Regarding Equity Propaganda Presented at North Carolina Board of Education Working Session
On August 30th, the NC State Board of Education had a working session. Included in the working session agenda was a presentation on an equity framework from the California-based National Equity Project (NEP).
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The Theft of American Education
The learning loss that follows from a “critical” education into "social and emotional learning" represents nothing short of an intentional theft of education from our children and our society.
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Three Terms Communists Redefined to Subvert Society
Currently, there are just three terms that have been profoundly subverted and are being used to transform our society by Communists for Communist ends.
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Nevertheless, He Desisted
It has been over a year since my son desisted from his belief that he was “trans,” but I still think about this every day.
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Counter Wokecraft: An Executive Summary
What has been missing is a unified presentation of the phenomenon, the strategies and tactics used to entrench it, and those that can be used to defend against it; in a word, a guide. The purpose of Counter Wokecraft is to play this role.
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A Call for a Defense of Parenting Act
I propose a national “Defense of Parenting Act” to formally clarify that all physical, medical, and therapeutic choices concerning a child are to be conducted by the parents or guardians of a child, and never the school.
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Yes, Your Kid’s Trans Thing is a Phase
Here's the good news: if you've got a teenage child, you are probably in your forties. You've been around the sun a few times. You've had your hipster grunge phase, your "Friend's" haircut, your Pottery Barn furniture phase.
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How Activism Shapes Ideology
In recent years, there has been an ongoing controversy about the origins of currently fashionable social justice ideology. Terms like Cultural Marxism and postmodernism have been used and subjected to sometimes fierce attacks.
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The Calamity of Scientific Gnosticism
Scientific Gnosticism is perhaps the most calamitous ideological phylum human beings have so far managed to contrive.
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On the Absence of Systemic Racism
According to Critical Race Theory, “racism is ordinary, not aberrational—‘normal science,’ the usual way society does business, the common, everyday experience of most people of color in this country.” Its advocates call this belief “systemic racism.”
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One of Critical Race Theory’s Major Harms: Asian American Discrimination
Critical Race Theory often justifies Asian discrimination because Asian Americans are often on the wrong side of the "groups who need to be helped" debate.
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When Critical Theory Took on Race
This essay will attempt to provide additional information about the connections between Critical Race Theory and its philosophical parent Critical Theory (CT).
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History Killers: New Historians Ignore Anti-capitalist Arguments by Southern Slavers
Facts counter to a particular narrative are dismissed and surface-level evidence is amplified. Enter: the new historians of capitalism.
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I Act; Therefor I Am. Dear Trans Kids: Stop Feeling and Start Thinking
A few weeks ago, a teacher at my kid’s school shared a bit of wisdom that has rocked my world. She taught the kids that there are four mental stages; feeling, thinking, planning, and doing.
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Five Ugly Truths About Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory is currently getting a ton of attention on the national and international stage, which is long overdue, but there are also many misconceptions about it.
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