Paulo Freire’s Perpetual Cultural Revolution
In this episode, James takes up the seventh chapter of The Politics of Education, wherein Freire outlines the need for and process of "conscientization."
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A Social Contract for the New World Order
In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay walks you through a few paragraphs of The Great Narrative in which Klaus Schwab details what a new social contract would entail and where it might come from.
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OnlySubs: Communism, Terrible Idea, Every Species
One of the more famous quips about Communism comes from the renowned biologist (entomologist, technically) E.O. Wilson. He said that it was a "great idea, wrong species," meaning that it's not suited to human beings and human nature.
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Groomer Schools 4: Drag Queen Story Hour
Before the last year or so, two terms you wouldn't have expected to encounter together are "drag queen" and "early childhood education," but we're now about three years into a full-fledged Communist revolution in the Western world, which has made it not only commonplace but shoved all in our faces.
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Leninism, Maoism, and Stakeholder Capitalism
Two of the most infamous figures of the 20th century are two of its most notorious Marxist dictators: Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong.
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OnlySubs: On the Sovereignty of Logos
I want to dive pretty deeply into the idea of why there's almost no capacity to communicate across the divide between Marxists (Woke, especially, or otherwise) and virtually everyone else, and it comes down to something far deeper than political disagreement.
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The Queer Subversion of Feminism: Gayle Rubin’s “Thinking Sex” Part 3
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James walks you through this most tedious portion of the essay where the seeds of subverting feminism itself are planted.
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Critical Thinking versus Critical Theory
One of the most common words we run into today thanks to the incredible spread of Woke Marxism is "critical."
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OnlySubs: James, What Can I Do?
Invariably at almost every event in almost every city, I get asked, "What can we do?" with all the emphasis either on the "we" or on the "do."
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Gayle Rubin’s “Thinking Sex” Part 2: Erasing Boundaries
In this episode, James Lindsay continues with a second part of Gayle Rubin's essay in which it becomes clear that Queer Theory is all about breaking down all boundaries and categories between acceptable and unacceptable sexual behavior using explicitly Marxist-style analysis.
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Marx’s Unreal Realities
In the Marxist literature, you run into the words "reality," "realities," and "actual" all the time. This is no mistake.
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OnlySubs: Stop Doomscrolling
Stop doomscrolling. Stop. Just stop. It's not good for you. It's not helping. It's not research. It's not even making you more aware of what's going on in the world.
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The Origin of Queer Theory: Gayle Rubin’s “Thinking Sex”
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay reads through a recent academic paper regarding bringing Freirean and Leninist Critical Pedagogy into NAIS-certified private schools, and what is written by Susannah Livingston, recent graduate of GCAS is shocking.
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Life in Herbert Marcuse’s World
Probably the most influential Marxist thinker of the 20th century was the Critical Marxist Herbert Marcuse.
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OnlySubs: If You’re Laughing, They’re Losing
Postmodernity is a funny place. You should laugh. On the other hand, you shouldn't get mad, bro. Big mad is big losing. So this leads us to some pretty simple advice worth a few minutes consideration: if you're laughing, they're losing.
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Woke Private Schools and the Elite Leninist Vanguard
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay reads through a recent academic paper regarding bringing Freirean and Leninist Critical Pedagogy into NAIS-certified private schools, and what is written by Susannah Livingston, recent graduate of GCAS is shocking.
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Historically Marginalized Is Forever
Whether using the phrasing "historically marginalized" or "traditionally marginalized" groups, this little manipulation enables a grab of power and resources in a truly tricky way, and it's "feel good" phrasing that appears in policy everywhere today.
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OnlySubs: This is Fine
We've all seen the meme. "This is fine," with flames all around. The dog sipping its coffee with a dumb smile on its face like its house isn't on fire. Did you know there's a name for the phenomenon captured by that meme?
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What Is Racial Literacy?
A common term of art in the current educational milieu is racial literacy. In fact, here is the giant and influential educational company Pollyanna, Inc., talking about how central racial literacy is to their K-8 education programs.
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Paulo Freire’s Schools
Anywhere in North America, chances are our kids go to Paulo Freire's schools. Who is Paulo Freire? Paulo Freire is a Brazilian Marxist and Liberation Theologian who remade literacy education according to his ideological programs and thereby ruined it.
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