True and False or Us Versus Them?
In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay explores this idea of "us versus them" out loud and explains its relevance to politics, society, and education.
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OnlySubs: Why Do Leftists Make Themselves Ugly?
Why do Leftists make themselves ugly? Is it just the mental illness at the heart of Leftist thinking? Well, no; it's more than that.
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Why Communists Do the Red-Green Alliance
As normal people who value ideological and logical consistency, we tend to find movements like the Red-Green Alliance (Communists and Islamists) and "Queers for Palestine" confusing.
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Woke Interpretation and “Lived Experience”
James Lindsay revisits the topic of "lived experience" and explains how it manifests outside of Leftist enclaves and without the cutesy name.
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All Roads Lead to Woke
In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay dives into this construction and how it sets up other Woke "magic spells" (like affordance traps) to get you to do their bidding.
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The Book of Woke: The Production of the Woke Self
What gets called Woke, especially on the Left, is a complete worldview (or ersatz theology) that therefore provides all the usual philosophical elements.
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What Woke Really Means
Even though it's a term without a stable meaning as it evolved, "Woke" is increasingly coming to mean something quite specific and precise.
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The Third Rail and the Fifth Column
The Woke Right is a Woke fifth column working internally against the American conservative movement.
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Twenty-First Century Woke—Left and Right | James Lindsay
James Lindsay explains how thinking changed as the Modern Era gave way to an Information Era many consider to be "Postmodern."
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What George Washington’s Death Can Teach Us About Woke
George Washington died at his home on at the age of 67 froma a particularly bad and sudden upper respiratory infection.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 10: Blood, Soil, and the Racial State
James Lindsay reads from Mein Kampf to show you the horrible reality of the intended Nazi State apparatus in Hitler's own words.
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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 Difference Between Left and Right
The thing is, while radicalism and political violence are not (at present) "both sides" problems, temptation is a both-sides problem.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 8: Carl Schmitt’s Politics and the Nazi State
Lindsay presents a short essay by Schmitt from simply titled "Politics" that leaves little doubt that his politics were Nazi politics.
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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 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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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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OnlySubs: Yes, Paul Gottfried, Woke Is Marxist
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I take you through a Leftist argument posing as "right-wing" thought.
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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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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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