The Essence of Critical Theory
Critical theory is a tool for delegitimizing a real thing for not being some kind of sociopolitical ideal thing that cannot even exist.
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The Iterated Motte and Bailey Strategy
Host James Lindsay explains how the "motte and bailey" strategy can be iterated to give legitimacy to truly radical ideas.
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Left and Right with Society in the Balance | James Lindsay
What are "Left" and "Right," politically? Where does political extremism come from, on both sides, in our present era of polarization?
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The Dark Heart of Woke: Manufactured Alienation
Woke is a distorted consciousness born out of a sense of alienation and is therefore a way of seeing the world and acting in it.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 4: Nazi Worldview, Nazi Organization
Running until its catastrophic failure in 1945, the National Socialists under Adolf Hitler ran a societal experiment: the Nazi Experiment.
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Foundations of a Free Society
Even societies which apply enormous amounts of force claim to be the true champions of freedom even though others see them as authoritarian.
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The Book of Woke: The Basis of Critical Constructivism
James Lindsay takes you through a series of bullet points outlined by Kincheloe so you can better understand what "Woke" is.
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The Architecture of Marxist Beliefs
Woke Right has the same “architecture of belief” as Marxism, and this is to help people better understand why the Woke Right is “Woke.”
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The Communist Manifesto, Volume One
Host James Lindsay takes you through the main body of the Manifesto of the Communist Party: preface, chapter one, and chapter two.
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Exclusion as the Basis of Wealth
Host James Lindsay explains how this property, the fundamental right to exclude, is the basis for all wealth.
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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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A Beginner’s Guide to the Woke Right
We’ll fight for our values with the clarity and unity that have always defined us. The Woke Right is a detour, not our destination.
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Douglas Murray, Dave Smith, and the Troubling Rise of Wokespertise
Wokespertise is a selective favoring of outsider narratives perhaps sprinkled with a generous dash of conspiracy theorizing.
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The Woke Right’s Elitist Coup: Inside the MAGA Civil War
By necessity, we begin here: Most of MAGA is not Woke Right. Few conservatives even lean Woke Right.
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The Book of Woke: Critical Hermeneutics
James Lindsay takes you through another segment of what he calls "The Book of Woke," by Joe L. Kincheloe, a critical education theorist.
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Man With Three Faces: Politics, Pathology, and the Modern Selves
Most of the time, everyone believes they’re talking about the facts, the “what’s happening” level of conversation, but sometimes they’re really talking about something deeper.
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The Book of Woke: Introducing Critical Constructivism
Host James Lindsay introduces a series exploring this book and exposing Woke for what it really is: a cult religious worldview.
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Agitation and Propaganda: The Battlespace of the 21st Century
James Lindsay exposes the propaganda tactics behind psychological and political warfare, from Communists to Nazis.
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Our Present Choice: Catharsis or Civilization
Though there are different ways to conceive of the choice that lies before us, one is that we will have to choose between catharsis and civilization.
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Drag Queens as Priests of Queer Theory
Queer Theory, which is to say Queer Marxism, is a religious cult, as discussed at length in The Queering of the American Child.
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