Health Equity, Babies, & Bathwater
I am also motivated to rationally improve health “equity” without throwing out the baby with all this critical bathwater.
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The Souls of White Folk
'Folks' has recently re-appeared in Britain in a fine new set of clothes, as a virtue-signalling badge of political correctness.
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Deepfake Methodology and the Limits of Critical Theories
My purposes here are to highlight this concept of “deepfake methodology” and contextualize in terms of what I have been learning about these lazy critical methods.
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Alex Makes The Grade
Student politics is generally judged a subject best left alone by the real-world media, but this week Alex Illsley, a law student at Christ Church, the poshest college at Oxford University, has managed to get some big time press in the UK with a splendid dose of Americanization.
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Understanding Social Justice Segregationists
As individualists, we think that when two people interact, the exchange is occurring between only two people. But instead of this interpersonal perceptive, Social Justice types see such interaction as inter-collective.
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What The ‘Grievance Studies Affair’ Says About Academia’s Social Justice Warriors
Today’s social justice warriors in academic fields such as gender studies share unfortunate commonalities with Adolf Hitler's 'struggle.'
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Age of Narratives and the Postmodern Democratic Political Regime
On this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, your host James Lindsay explores the concept of political regimes through American history.
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The Disneyfication of Critique
Let’s begin with the image of Andrea Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon and Judith Butler as Disney princesses.
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Universal Social Justice: A Necessary Alternative to Critical Social Justice
We need to provide an ideology that will counter Critical Social Justice, so that those who haven't adopted it have an alternative solution.
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The New Calvinists
Puritanism is back, and not just the #MeToo sort. The drama of the damned and the saved, of public accusation, confession, absolution, and condemnation for every sort of social, political, or environmental sin, has become downright tiresome.
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How French “Intellectuals” Ruined the West: Postmodernism & Its Impact
Postmodernism presents a threat not only to liberal democracy but to modernity itself.
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Trans + Gender = Civilizational Collapse
Before anyone gets too excited, this is not an essay about people with non-standard sexuality. This is an essay about the power of words.
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Using Shakespeare to Divide America
You would not think that a public discussion of Shakespeare by two respected academics would devote the entire time to talking about race, gender, sexuality and Donald Trump, would you? Welcome to the sad state of the academic humanities in 2020.
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Critical Theories: A Virus on a Liberal Body Politic
For this “virus,” we need a liberal immune response (critical thinking) that minimizes its influence while keeping the liberal body politic intact and healthy.
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Reconstructing Derrida: The Poetics of Nonsense and the Rule of the Cool
Derrida is currently enjoying a new vogue as a kind of demon king in the theology of the movement led by such people as Jonathan Haidt, Jordan Peterson, and Camille Paglia against the irrationalism that has swept through the humanities in the English-speaking world, with Peterson describing Derrida as the “chief villain” in the story.
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A Short Letter to a Misunderstanding Right
I find it very odd when people keep telling me that “the left” is doing something bad with regard to wokeness and applied postmodernism when so many of the people opposing identity politics, cancel culture, collective blame, language policing, deplatforming, and censorship by the Critical Social Justice faction are, in fact, on the left.
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The Marketplace of Ideas and the Battle of Discourses
We are currently caught up in a battle of discourses. Mostly, this battle rages between Critical Social Justice activists and right-wing populists, with the rest of us stuck somewhere in the middle and having to pick sides.
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Liberal Reflections from the National Archives: Hope, Pride, and Two American Tales
Though I’m no history buff myself, that history was part of why I was so excited to get to take the trip and, while there, to set aside time to take a leisurely tour of the National Archives, which I haven’t had a chance to visit since I was a kid.
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Language Matters: Why I’m Creating Translations from the Wokish
The point of language, to the best of my understanding, is to create shared intentions between the communicators involved.
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Naming the Enemy: Critical Social Justice
Over the last few years, it has become apparent that, for whatever nobility and moral worth lies in the project called “social justice,” something has gone badly wrong with the ideological movement on the far left that repeatedly calls for—or, more accurately, demands—it.
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