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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OnlySubs: The Idiotic “Spectre” of the Woke Right
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I take you through another exciting episode of reading the Woke Right in their own words with lots of commentary.
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Woke Right: Same Energy, Opposite Direction
One of the best ways to think of “Woke Right” without getting into the philosophical and technical weeds is “same energy, opposite direction.”
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How Liberalism Has Not Failed: Patrick Deneen Has Failed Conservatism
Liberalism now stands on trial, accused of engineering its own destruction—a charge that echoes ever louder amid the thunder of political turmoil.
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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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Communism Is Not Atheist
Communism wants belief in God out of the picture while still believing in an idealized Communistic Man as a deity.
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How Woke Uses Political Warfare as Intelligence Operations
Host James Lindsay explains this important woke manipulative tactic so you can learn to see it and get out from under its spell.
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OnlySubs: Woke Right Elitism and Curtis Yarvin’s Dark Elves
The Woke Right bros are weird. They're also elitists, but they're definitely weird. Dorky. Peculiar. Strange. Nerds. Unfit to rule but desperate to.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 1: The Nazi Racial Worldview
James Lindsay reads from Chapter 1 of Volume 2 of Mein Kampf to explain the Nazi racial worldview (weltanshauung).
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OnlySubs: The Surprising Genius of “Woke Right”
James Lindsay goes through the surprising benefits of the term "Woke Right" for the Woke Right splinter threatening MAGA and conservatives.
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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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Woke Right: MAGA’s “New Atheists”?
James Lindsay shows the history of New Atheism, comparing it against Critical Religion Theory, Marxism, and, ironically, the 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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Emergency and the Philosophy of Leftism
This philosophy is not exactly a deep resentment of the past; It’s a romantic resentment of history as civilization itself.
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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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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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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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The Political Definition of “Queer”
James Lindsay explains the original definition of "queer" from David Halperin's 1995 book "Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography."
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