The Theft of Education
Education is being stolen from our kids and our society. In fact, for the most part, it has been stolen already.
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Can We Trust Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)?
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay goes through portions of two documents about Social-Emotional Learning, one from UNESCO and one from USAID, and makes a strong case that however much you currently trust SEL, you should trust it less.
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Totalitarianism and the Progressive Impulse
With the possible exception of our would-be overlords, we all know Nazis were bad. Fewer of us, especially in the younger generations, understand that Communists are also bad.
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Systemic Trauma and Harm
It seems virtually everything Woke these days is justified on the back of some obviously nonsense appeal to "trauma" or "harm."
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What Does It Mean to Be Freirean?
Sustainability is to become our "New Sensibility," just like Herbert Marcuse called for in the second chapter of his 1969 Essay on Liberation.
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Data is the New Oil
You have probably heard the quip: "data is the new oil." What does that mean, and what does it imply?
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OnlySubs: Rejoice in the Day the Lord Has Made
Psalm 118:24 reads "This is the day the Lord has made; rejoice and be glad in it." This is one of the most famous psalms in the Bible, and virtually everyone has heard it.
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The Strange Death of the University, Part 2: A New Sensibility
Sustainability is to become our "New Sensibility," just like Herbert Marcuse called for in the second chapter of his 1969 Essay on Liberation.
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“Lived Experience,” Explained
We've all heard it and done everything we can to avoid rolling our eyes now. "It's my lived experience!" as though that's evidence or, actually, even better than evidence.
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OnlySubs: The Defining Ignorance of the Left
If we boil it down to brass tacks, there's one key defining characteristic that places people on the Left, and that's the desire to do away with all hierarchy.
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The Strange Death of the University, Part 1: The Red Thread
We all know academia is in trouble. In fact, we're not even sure it can be saved. To put it simply, the university is dying.
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Understanding the Dialectic
In this slightly longer episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay explains the dialectic and dialectical thought in some detail with a considerable number of examples to help you understand this synthetic approach to thought and why it's always going to be a catastrophe in the making.
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OnlySubs: ESG Is for Everyone!
ESG is a scam. The Environmental, Social, and Governance standards set by some of the most corrupt and powerful institutions on this planet allow them to run the entire professional world like a cartel, especially its corporate sector. As a result, ESG is for everyone!
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How Paulo Freire Made Marxism Stupid
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay explains the phenomenon through a number of examples that make it absolutely clear how cheap and stupid "Marxist" analysis has become as a result of going "Woke."
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The Dialectic of Global Citizenship
There are certain advantages to understanding not just how the Dialectical Left (including Marxists and Wokeness) think but how their thought evolves over time.
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OnlySubs: Does Academia Have Ideological Rabies?
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I make the case that Woke Marxism works like ideological rabies, and academia is probably badly infected.
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Critique and the Linguistic Transformation of Society
Redefine the words; redefine the society. That's the basic idea of "critique" and the way so much of Marxist activism proceeds.
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On Individual, Corporate, and Social Buying
Apparently a lot of young people believe not only in something nonsensical but also specifically in socialism.
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OnlySubs: They’re Not Idiots
I hear people say "Idiots!" all the time when discussing the actions of the ruling class. That's a mistake. They're not idiots.
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OnlySubs: The Sinking of the USS Twitter
If we think about what's taking place in the world today as a new form of warfare, and we think about the various instruments of that warfare in analogy to, say, naval vessels, we might come to think of a social media platform like Twitter as a kind of powerful battleship for the Enemy forces of today, the USS Twitter.
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