Critical America Theory, Left and Right
You can have a Critical Race Theory about race, a Critical Gender Theory about sex, even a Critical America Theory about America.
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The Israel Question as the Modern Jewish Question
The Jewish Question, which is "what do we do with the Jews?" rests on the presumption that they aren't wanted here, or maybe anywhere.
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Forced “Friendship” Under the Friend-Enemy Distinction
The friend-enemy distinction is the underlying organizational principle of the Marxist Left, radical Islam, and the Fascist Reactionary Left.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 12: Positive Christianity as the “Christian Nationalism” of the Third Reich
A "Christian Nationalist" movement is reaching into many legitimate anxieties of American Christians and turning them to its project.
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The Poison of Negative Idealism
Negative idealism explains why "critical" movements like Communism, Fascism, and Woke of all types trend toward violence.
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From Transgender to Transhuman
The same arguments that justify "transgender" also justify transhuman: that who we really are does not depend on our physical body at all.
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OnlySubs: Why Do Leftists Make Themselves Ugly?
Why do Leftists make themselves ugly? Is it just the mental illness at the heart of Leftist thinking? Well, no; it's more than that.
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Why Communists Do the Red-Green Alliance
As normal people who value ideological and logical consistency, we tend to find movements like the Red-Green Alliance (Communists and Islamists) and "Queers for Palestine" confusing.
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Woke Interpretation and “Lived Experience”
James Lindsay revisits the topic of "lived experience" and explains how it manifests outside of Leftist enclaves and without the cutesy name.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 11: Dictatorship by Reichstag Fire
An undeniable part of the Nazi Experiment is that it operated a fascist-style dictatorship for its infamous "racialist worldview."
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Saving American Liberty: All Sessions
Watch James Lindsay and Michael O’Fallon in Dallas, TX, recorded August 22–23, 2025, to learn more about this rising threat and how we can save American liberty.
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What Is Gender Trafficking?
Children are being separated from their parents by the state as a result of indoctrination in gender ideology.
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What Woke Really Means
Even though it's a term without a stable meaning as it evolved, "Woke" is increasingly coming to mean something quite specific and precise.
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What Is an American? | James Lindsay
Due to unwanted pressure from the "Woke Right," we're now facing a deliberate attempt to redefine American identity.
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Milestones, Vol. 1: Islamist Bolshevism
What is Islamism? Is it the same thing as Islam? Has it varied over time? What's its relationship to Communism, at least in our present era?
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What Werewolves Can Teach Us About Political Warfare
A small number of bad actors who have an informational advantage over a much larger population have a gigantic strategic advantage.
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OnlySubs: The Critical Theory of the Woke Right
James Lindsay takes you through much of another "Woke Right" essay about Carl Schmitt by C. Jay Engel and published on American Reformer.
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The Impending Disaster of Institutional Knowledge Bombs
Virtually every institution in the world runs not only on official knowledge but also on something called "institutional knowledge."
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Sustainability and the One Belt One Road Initiative | Michael O’Fallon
Michael O’Fallon outlines how Western society is being restructured through “degrowth,” “sustainability dogma,” and “integralism.”
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What George Washington’s Death Can Teach Us About Woke
George Washington died at his home on at the age of 67 froma a particularly bad and sudden upper respiratory infection.
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