OnlySubs: Is James Lindsay Really a Trumper?!
In light of his decision to vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 election, what does James Lindsay have to say about Trump now?
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How Not to Resolve the Paradox of Tolerance
The logic of the left today is overwhelmingly rooted in a single essay published in 1965 by the neo-Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse.
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OnlySubs: The Lockpick to the Gates of Western Civilization
We've entered into a strange phase in history where, because of the actions of the Biden administration, we're about to see an unprecedented number of people become aware of the problem of Wokeness, which they couldn't see before, ostensibly because of Trump.
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Antonio Gramsci, Cultural Marxism, Wokeness, and Leninism 4.0
If you want to understand the present moment, especially how similar Wokeness seems to Mao's Cultural Revolution, you have to understand the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci.
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OnlySubs: Woke Psychopathologies in Psychotherapy
Y'all, I got mad. It's not that often that something Woke makes me angry, but I saw an example that just really got me going.
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OnlySubs: Four Roads to Deal with the Woke
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscriber-only podcast, I try to explain that there are exactly four options available to people in dealing with the Woke.
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OnlySubs: A Spanish Vaccine for Woke Bullying
I was recently asked why you don't see the Woke going after the Spanish colonizers of history, who arguably had the most brutal colonial project of all European colonialism.
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The Birth of a New American Mythology
We are witnessing the birth of a new national mythology in America, and it is not good news.
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OnlySubs: Psychopathy and Social Media
Since the problem of totalitarianism hinges significantly on mismanaging psychopathy (and its tendency to create self-suited pseudo-realities), totalitarian ideologies can be expected to bloom when a huge new opportunity like social media arrives on the scene.
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OnlySubs: The Capitol and the Origins of Freedom
I talk about something I think is worth saying about what happened at the Capitol Building on January 6th at greater length than normal for an OnlySubs episode, running just over the half-hour mark.
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The Nature of Pseudo-Reality
The pseudo-reality holds as its North Star a Utopian vision that aligns with artificial resolutions to their inability to cope with reality as it is, and it thereby attracts others who have similar issues.
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OnlySubs: “Diversity” Is a PR Con
The whole "diversity" industry produces no tangible product, adds nothing to anyone's bottom line, does nothing to get your product to your customers, has no evidence supporting it (and some against it), is expensive, and creates problems in your company.
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Announcing A New ‘Subscribers Only’ Podcast with James Lindsay
Hey y'all. I'm trying something new, just for you. I'm starting this "OnlySubs" series of much more regular miniature podcasts for subscribers only, aiming hopefully to make a few a week for you all, with my gratitude.
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The Next Chapter in the American Story
One type of story is a national story, and in this episode of the New Discourses podcast, James Lindsay makes the case that Americans have, by and large, forgotten the totality of their own story.
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Biden Is Not The Room
James Lindsay recently said on Twitter that he will vote "unhappily" for Republicans including Trump in these troubled times after seeing an argument that the left should work to abolish the Constitution.
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Understanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We live in an era of unprecedented pressure for ideologically based organizational trainings: anti-racist, racial sensitivity, unconscious bias, cultural awareness, and, perhaps most commonly, some combination of "diversity, equity, and inclusion."
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The Church of Social Justice
From fat studies to academics, the world appears to have been taken over by identity politics. The result is the creation of a seemingly enormous congregation of members in the church of social justice.
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Two and Two Make Four
We have to talk about 2+2. Unfortunately. Most unfortunately. This is because what looks like a simple and profoundly stupid Twitter fight must be understood in the full context in which it is playing out.
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Saying No to Critical Race Theory
I want to explain Critical Race Theory to you. I just want to help you understand it, so I sat down with my microphone and no real plan except to talk through the claims, history, and thought of Critical Race Theory, highlighting where it came from and why it's a terrible way to think about race and racism, in its own ideas.
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