Totalitarianism and Its Purge Culture
Why does every totalitarian system enact brutal purges, even genocides of its enemies? The reason is the logic of the systems themselves.
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Christian nationalism
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“Insurrection Barbie’s” Long Game and the Conservative Right
Early in March 2026, the famous but anonymous X account known as "Insurrection Barbie" dropped a long article about an Integralist operation to disrupt and hijack the American right-wing (or conservative movement, or Republican Party).
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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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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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Panel: From Woke Left to Woke Right | James Lindsay & Michael O’Fallon
James Lindsay and Michael O'Fallon sat down for a live discussion about the challenges Lindsay has faced for standing up to the "New Right."
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Twentieth Century Woke—Left and Right | James Lindsay
Join James Lindsay for this important lecture explaining the model and modes of "Woke" thinking in a historical context we already understand.
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How “Woke Right” Beats the Dialectic
Host James Lindsay explains why the Woke Left cannot use the framing "Woke Right" the way it uses other labels, like "Alt Right" or "Neo-Fascist Right," in effect short circuiting the dialectic they depend on to drive their activism.
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OnlySubs: A New Founding By a Woke Right WEF?
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I go through the New Founding strategic manifesto to get a glimpse behind the curtain, in their own carefully chosen words.
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The Dialectic of the Strong Gods: A Review of R.R. Reno’s Return of the Strong Gods
Given this book is dialectical and critical, but for a right-wing "traditionalist" imaginary, I think it qualifies as Woke Right unambiguously.
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Can Nationalism Solve Our Woke Problem?
Is nationalism the answer to our Woke woes? Yes and no, and mostly no, and to be that guy, it depends on what you mean by "nationalism."
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The Hoax that Broke the Conservative Internet
James Lindsay revealed a hoax against American Reformer by rewriting the Communist Manifesto to align with "Woke Right" ideology.
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A Communist Manifesto for Christian Nationalists: Testing the Woke Right
As many of you know and fewer appreciate, I have been aiming to expose a phenomenon called the “Woke Right” for some time now. This whole matter is an issue of considerable and rather fierce debate.
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Reaction is the Real Action | James Lindsay
In this lecture from Dr. James Lindsay of New Discourses, the nature of the action-reaction dynamic as a tool of political warfare and the example of the setup of Christian Nationalism as a reaction to Woke provocation is laid bare.
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WTF is Christian Nationalism?
In this unhappy episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay reads Haywood's "Foundationalist" manifesto and starts asking some uncomfortable questions about what's really going on behind the "Christian Nationalism" movement and its apparent considerable reservoir of financing.
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Post-Liberalism, Left and Right
One of Mao Zedong's most famous pieces is a short command from 1937 titled "Combat Liberalism." Contrary to what many conservatives would have us believe, Communism is not the completion of liberalism but one of its mortal enemies, the fruit of a Leftwing, Romantic Reaction to the Enlightenment.
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Two Wolves of Christian Nationalism
What in the world is "Christian Nationalism," and how in the world is it supposed to work?
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Free OnlySubs: Is Michael O’Fallon a Christian Nationalist?
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I discuss Christian Nationalism and take you back behind the shadowy curtains and tell you a bit about how Michael and I came to do so much work together.
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