WTF is SEL?
What the F is Social-Emotional Learning? It's a serious question. Behind all the flowery language is a history, and that history demands looking at.
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OnlySubs: A Logic of Positive and Negative Competition
Competition has two forms: positive and negative. In positive competition, competitors try to improve themselves to win. In negative competition, they try to cut down their opponents instead of bettering themselves.
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Introducing The Marxification of Education
James Lindsay, host of the New Discourses Podcast, has written a new book called The Marxification of Education: Paulo Freire's Critical Marxism and the Theft of Education, which is available now.
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OnlySubs: Social and Parasocial Relationships
In the world of social media, we've had a huge expansion of our parasocial space without much expansion of our truly social space.
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What Radicalized You, James Lindsay?
James Lindsay, host of the New Discourses Podcast, gets asked all the time about what really got him started in his campaign against Woke Marxism.
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OnlySubs: Reciprocal Submission and the Impossibility of Socialism
Socialism doesn't work. One key reason why is because it requires the voluntary mutual submission of every individual in society to every other individual in society.
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The Strange Death of the University, Part 4: The Strange Death of Knowledge
This chapter features one of the most dangerous and manipulative concepts to come out of the Woke Marxist movement, not least thanks to the work done by Paulo Freire: other ways of knowing.
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OnlySubs: Stop Wanting Fake Friends
One of the main ways we got into this Woke Marxist mess in the first place is that people started to care way too much about what their fake friends think of them.
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Marxism and Holistic Thinking
Holistic thinking isn't just a feature of the weird New Age and spiritualists; it's also a centerpiece of Marxist thinking.
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The Strange Death of the University, Part 3: The Strange Death of Science
Science cannot survive this long-sought-after push by activism into its domain, and it will usher in nothing less than a new era of "sustainable" Lysenkoism.
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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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