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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The Dark Truth About Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
Host James Lindsay walks you through a number of sources promoting and describing Social-Emotional Learning in unprecedented depth, breadth, and clarity in this long but crucial episode of the podcast.
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What is a Woman?
What is a woman? That's the question of the year, it seems, and we're all aghast.
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Paulo Freire and the Marxist Transformation of the Church
Join James to understand the goal of transforming the Christian churches in theory, practice, and agenda in this gripping podcast that exposes the roots and implementation of a devastating Marxist rot in mainline Christianity and thus the chief heresy of the twenty-first century.
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The Normalization Scale
Woke Marxists talk endlessly about the need to "destigmatize" this, "normalize" that, "affirm" this other thing, and "celebrate" whatever they say is best.
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OnlySubs: Making Oppression Invisible
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I explore the activist dimension of all brands of Marxism in terms of how they hide their evil and thus make oppression invisible.
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Paulo Freire’s Marxist Easter for Educators
In this first part of this shocking chapter, before turning to the role he envisions for churches, Freire explains the religious conversion educators must go through in order to be "true" educators.
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Queer Theory Is Queer Marxism
Thanks to Drag Queen Story Hour, groomer schools, and all other things sex, gender, and sexuality pushed by today's out-of-control Woke Marxist Left, Queer Theory has been pushed front and center in the public consciousness, but what is it? Simply put, Queer Theory is Queer Marxism.
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OnlySubs: The Three Iron Laws of Woke Behavior
As I've said over and over again on Twitter and elsewhere, there are what I refer to as "Iron Laws" of Woke behavior.
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Paulo Freire and the Critical Theft of Education
In this episode, James takes up the ninth chapter of The Politics of Education, wherein Freire describes what he calls “Humanistic Education.”
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James Lindsay on His Lifetime Twitter Ban
Twitter finally dropped the hammer and banned James Lindsay. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James spends half an hour telling the story behind the ban and walking through his initial thoughts and reactions to it.
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