OnlySubs: Nobody Is a Global Citizen
Join me on this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, to hear me discuss the strange and probably crooked idea of the "global citizen."
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OnlySubs: Be Faithful Over a Few Things
Join me on this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, as I discuss the relevance of this verse to my life and to our present moment.
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OnlySubs: The Woke Won’t Let Go of Power
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I discuss this phenomenon a little to give you some clearer sense of what we're dealing with in the Woke movement and therefore also how we must approach pushing back against it.
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OnlySubs: Hey Dads (and Moms): You’re Credentialed to Fight Back
Join me on this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, to hear what I think about normal people standing up and speaking up, as inspired by this fully credentialed dad in Northern Virginia.
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Herbert Marcuse and the Catastrophe of Solidarity
In this episode, join James as he reads through the final (shortest) part of this essay and connects it to the features of today's clownish world, from Antifa and other radical activism to divisive identity politics to stakeholder capitalism and sustainability metrics.
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OnlySubs: On the Political Rejection and Affirmation of One’s Kids
For some time I've wanted to say something about what I believe is one of the main drivers of "trans parents," meaning parents who seemingly inexplicably have a large number of trans kids, which should be a statistical extreme rarity unless something else not unlike gender Munchausen's by proxy is the driver.
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The Only Thing That Isn’t Systemically Racist
The more one reads of Herbert Marcuse, the father of the New Left, the less there is to recommend his ideas and more there is to recommend learning about them.
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OnlySubs: Critical Race Theory’s Dictatorship of the Antiracists
Join me on this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, to hear how this race-Marxism works.
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Marcuse’s Subverting Forces in Transition
The more one reads of Herbert Marcuse, the father of the New Left, the less there is to recommend his ideas and more there is to recommend learning about them.
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How to Make a Critical Theory Out of Anything
Join James in this episode to hear how ridiculously simple and absurd it is so you can protect yourself from Critical Theories in other lines of thought.
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OnlySubs: Intersectionality’s Faceless Aesthetic
Something I am noticing more and more lately is the use of a faceless aesthetic in intersectional art, and it's starting to creep me out.
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OnlySubs: Don’t Drink the Woke Kool-Aid
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I take listeners through a radio message sent from Angela Davis to Jim Jones at his compound in Guyana in 1977, a year before the gruesome end.
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OnlySubs: The Worst Woke Belief
There are a lot of bad ideas in Critical Social Justice and the related Critical Theories. Lots of them. Some of these ideas are much more dangerous than others, and in this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I dive into what might be the worst of them: the belief in the perfectability of Man.
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Herbert Marcuse’s “New Sensibility”
So that you can better understand the moment we find ourselves in, James Lindsay has been reading "An Essay on Liberation" for the New Discourses Podcast in full, with his explanation and commentary. This is the second part of that series, reading through part two of Marcuse's infamous essay, "A New Sensibility."
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OnlySubs: Aufheben der Martin Luther King
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I spend a few minutes talking about the aufheben of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by the voracious culture-eaters on the Dialectical Left.
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Critical Race Praxis and the Weakness of Liberals
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay breaks down the distinction and intrinsic relationship between Critical Theory and Critical Praxis and thus why almost the entire discussion of what to do about this problem coming from liberal quarters misses the point and remains ineffective.
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OnlySubs: Critical Pedagogy Doesn’t Understand Education
Critical Pedagogy is the name for the Critical Theory of education, meaning both applying Critical Theory to education and applying it in education, as in teaching students to adopt Critical Theory methodologies and ways of thinking.
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The Woke Manipulation of Democracy
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay walks you through more pieces of the Woke, neo-Marxist, and Marxist literature to make the case that when the Woke are calling for "democracy," they mean something that demands a very radical agenda along with it.
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OnlySubs: Critical Theory Is Applied Psychopathology
Drawing from various examples in the neo-Marxist and Critical Pedagogy literature, in this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I make the case that Wokeness is applied psychopathology.
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OnlySubs: Wound Collecting: A Manipulative Woke Tactic
Wound collecting is a profoundly manipulative behavior strongly connected to malignant ideologies and psychopathologies, and it needs to be understood as such, especially in our present moment when it has so much traction and manipulates so much social currency.
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