What is Agitprop?
Host James Lindsay discusses the concept of agitprop to show you how to spot influence campaigns you might encounter online or in the news.
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We Are the Fake News Now
"We are the media now!" So we hear. Much of that media is social media, and social media is a psychological and political warfare battlespace. More than that, it's incredibly fake.
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The Propaganda of Telling the Truth, Falsely
Propaganda takes many forms, and one of the most common is what can be called "telling the truth, falsely," or "being right, wrongly."
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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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Don’t Trust Woke Language
Host James Lindsay gives a very simple instruction: start being a lot more suspicious of Woke words and agendas.
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Staying Out of Affordance Traps
Breaking free of affordance traps is necessary to beating Woke Marxism and all other forms of dialectical manipulation.
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How to Allocate Your Resources
Host James Lindsay introduces the "Pareto principle," also known as the "80-20 Rule" as a guide to organizing our efforts against Woke Marxism.
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The Need for Linguistic Discipline
Host James Lindsay explains the need for linguistic discipline with several important examples. Join him to start training.
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How to Stop a Cultural Revolution | James Lindsay
In this lecture from Dr. James Lindsay of New Discourses, the question before us, since we find ourselves in the midst of a cultural revolution, is once it has started, is it possible to stop it, and if so, how?
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Critical Education is Brainwashing
In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay takes you through three such people to make an irrefutable case that Critical Pedagogy really is nothing other than Woke brainwashing.
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Leninism, Maoism, and Stakeholder Capitalism
Two of the most infamous figures of the 20th century are two of its most notorious Marxist dictators: Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong.
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Critical Thinking versus Critical Theory
One of the most common words we run into today thanks to the incredible spread of Woke Marxism is "critical."
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