helen pluckrose Archives - New Discourses

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What’s Passed Since the “Conceptual Penis”?

James Lindsay joins High Society Radio to discuss what has transpired in all the time since he and Peter Boghossian published their first (mostly unsuccessful) attempt at a hoax paper on gender studies: “The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct,” in early summer 2017.

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How Theory Got Cynical and Why That Sucks for Everyone

James Lindsay joins Jack Murphy on the Jack Murphy Live podcast to discuss his forthcoming book with Helen Pluckrose, Cynical Theories.

What The 'Grievance Studies Affair' Says About Academia's Social Justice Warriors

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What The ‘Grievance Studies Affair’ Says About Academia’s Social Justice Warriors

Today’s social justice warriors in academic fields such as gender studies share unfortunate commonalities with Adolf Hitler's 'struggle.'

Postmodernism Versus Critical Social Justice

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Postmodernism Versus Critical Social Justice

James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose join old-school postmodernist and libertarian thinker Thaddeus Russell on the Unregistered podcast.

How French "Intellectuals" Ruined the West: Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained

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How French “Intellectuals” Ruined the West: Postmodernism & Its Impact

Postmodernism presents a threat not only to liberal democracy but to modernity itself.

The Roots of "Woke" Culture

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The Roots of “Woke” Culture

Woke culture continues to become ever-more relevant to people in all walks of life, and this led to a recent BBC audio-documentary featuring feminist authort Helen Lewis and produced by Craig Templeton Smith, “The Roots of ‘Woke’ Culture.”

A Short Letter to a Misunderstanding Right

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A Short Letter to a Misunderstanding Right

I find it very odd when people keep telling me that “the left” is doing something bad with regard to wokeness and applied postmodernism when so many of the people opposing identity politics, cancel culture, collective blame, language policing, deplatforming, and censorship by the Critical Social Justice faction are, in fact, on the left.

The Marketplace of Ideas and the Battle of Discourses

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The Marketplace of Ideas and the Battle of Discourses

We are currently caught up in a battle of discourses. Mostly, this battle rages between Critical Social Justice activists and right-wing populists, with the rest of us stuck somewhere in the middle and having to pick sides.

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Freedom of Speech and the Fallacy of Demanding to be Heard

To insist that defenders of freedom of speech must listen to you is to misunderstand the concepts of freedom and the marketplace of ideas.

Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship

Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship

January 22, 2020
Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian

Something has gone wrong in the university—especially in certain fields within the humanities. Scholarship based less upon finding truth and more upon attending to social grievances has become firmly established.

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