OnlySubs: Conserving the Means of Progress
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I talk about how genuine progress is made through conserving the principles that enable it.
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Free OnlySubs: Why Every Day Is January 6 Now
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, which I'm taking out from behind the paywall and making available to everyone, I walk you through the crucial paragraphs of Marcuse's essay in light of this ridiculous and ridiculously dangerous pronouncement.
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How Education Turned Critical
In this episode, second in this series, James Lindsay reads through the book that documents this horrific turn, The Critical Turn in Education, by Marxian education professor Isaac Gottesman, and makes clear exactly how our educational systems were deliberately and strategically turned Marxist over the last half century.
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Groomer Schools 3: The Creation of an American Red Guard
Here, in the third part of the series, Lindsay puts these two pieces together, explains their purpose, and illustrates how Critical Race Theory works alongside Queer Theory (grooming) for a blatantly Maoist purpose: to create an American Red Guard meant to overthrow our society and start all over from a new Year Zero.
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OnlySubs: Forever Oppression for Historically Oppressed Groups
Even if some historically oppressed group becomes absolutely and tyrannically dominant in society, it is still historically oppressed.
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OnlySubs: Why Critical Theory Rejects Equality
Critical Race Theory takes most of its aim on the idea of colorblind equality, which it hates.
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OnlySubs: Reknitting the Social Fabric
This is how the social fabric of our countries can be knit back together.
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Free OnlySubs: Why Critical Race Theory Is Un-American
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I go through the first paragraph of Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic's Critical Race Theory: An Introduction line by line.
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History Killers: New Historians Ignore Anti-capitalist Arguments by Southern Slavers
Facts counter to a particular narrative are dismissed and surface-level evidence is amplified. Enter: the new historians of capitalism.
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America’s Overseers: How the Example of Harvard Discredits the Meme of Black “Marginalization”
Among the many spells the wicked witches of the woke West have cast upon us is the one that compels us to believe that blacks (and other minorities) are eternally “underrepresented” and “marginalized” in America.
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Land Acknowledgment Statements: The Cultural Violence of the Academic Elite
Imported from countries like Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, where Postcolonial Theory is more prominent than in the US, Weapon X in the rhetorical arms race that pervades academic wokeness has reached American shores: it is called the “Land Acknowledgement Statement.”
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A Letter Supporting a Bill to Ban Critical Race Theory
The state of New Hampshire is trying to advance a bill in its state house of representatives (HB544) that mirrors the executive order President Trump issued "against Critical Race Theory," which is to say against the divisive (and racist/neoracist) tenets at the heart of Critical Race Theory and so-called "diversity" training sessions based upon it.
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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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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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Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don’t: Cynicism On Display
For the last four years, I’ve been unable to settle to my own satisfaction the question of what poses the greater internal threat to the United States: the Presidency of Donald Trump, or the growing influence of Critical Social Justice Theory (CSJT).
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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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(Higher) Education Is Destroying America
The reason for the problem is simple: the “educated” have become a stale, stagnant monoculture, a culture within which groupthink reigns, within which prejudice predominates, bad ideas go unchallenged and the worst ideas get insulated from scrutiny by strictly enforced taboos.
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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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How Wokeness Undermines The Constitution
Even the Constitution offers us uncomfortably little protection against Woke totalitarianism as the Woke gain cultural hegemony and, as a result, control over ever more levers of power.
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Wokeness Threatens the Rule of Law
Here are two important ideas that currently exist in fundamental opposition to one another: “Reasonableness” and “Wokeness.”
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