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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Critical Theory
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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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Panel: Why We Need New Discourses
In this Panel held on October 13, 2019, all panelists came together to critique the influence of social justice ideology on academia and public discourse.
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The EVILution of Communism Workshop: All Sessions
This workshop, hosted by James Lindsay, aims to explain and document the evolutionary transformation of Marxist theory and Communism throughout its history.
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Doing Social Justice Responsibly
Pluckrose tackles the ideological excesses within social justice activism, offering a way to address social justice issues without abandoning reason.
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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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The Thing You Run Into When Your Beliefs Are False
Lindsay advocates evidence-based inquiry and shows how critical theory ignores "reality is what you run into when your beliefs are false."
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Communism 2.5: Social Communism
In this third lecture, James Lindsay discusses the development of twentieth-century Communism along its second track: Western Marxism.
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Panel: Grievance Studies
In October 2019, James Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, Helen Pluckrose, and Mike Nayna gathered in London to reflect on the "Grievance Studies" project.
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The Basics of Cultural Marxism
Host James Lindsay offers a thorough overview of Marxism; Cultural Marxism; Critical Marxism; and Woke Marxism, connecting each to the challenges of modernity.
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The Curse of Postmodern Neo-Marxism in North American Education
For the last few decades, North American education schools have been ground zero for two dangerous intellectual movements: critical theory and postmodernism.
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How Woke Marxists Stole Reading: What is Critical Literacy?
Marxist brainwashing and radical activation is calling itself “critical literacy” so it can pass itself off as a literacy lesson.
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