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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James Lindsay
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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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Totalitarian Stakeholderism, Left and Right
James Lindsay explains how the first true Stakeholder economy was instituted in Nazi Germany in 1937 with a National Socialist Shareholder Law.
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Elite Theory, Descriptive and Prescriptive
James Lindsay dives into the various faces of elite theory and elitism and gives a trenchant warning against a rising tide of elitist thought.
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Can Nationalism Solve Our Woke Problem?
Is nationalism the answer to our Woke woes? Yes and no, and mostly no, and to be that guy, it depends on what you mean by "nationalism."
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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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The State of Exception and the Unbound Executive
Join James Lindsay understand how the "post-liberal" factions on Left and Right both increasingly think about executive power.
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Woke Nationalism and the Nazi Experiment
James Lindsay reads directly from the source of the Nazi Experiment, the second chapter of Adolf Hitler's infamous Mein Kampf.
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The Deadly Fraud of Restorative Justice in Schools
James Lindsay critiques restorative justice in schools, exposing its failures and ties to ideological activism.
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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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The Road Away from Radicalization
Enough is enough. While there is much need for purposed action around the world to set our countries to right, we are rapidly realizing we've had enough radicalism.
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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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Never Again Is Now
How in the world did people become Nazis? How could it have happened? These are questions we perhaps hoped we wouldn't be able to answer.
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No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Everyone, no matter how small they feel against the global threat we all face, can make a huge difference.
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OnlySubs: Prayer and the Fearsome Power of Ideology
James reads a short snippet from a book where Nazi ideology comes face-to-face with Jewish prayer in one of the ghettos the Nazis set up for the Jews.
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America’s Sons and the Dark Temptation of the Woke Right
Host James Lindsay takes a shockingly candid look at the dark soul and evil manipulation of the rising Woke Right and invites you to join him in putting a stop to it.
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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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Welcome to the Two-Front War Against Woke
In this free-ranging episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay discusses the current landscape in the civilizational fight against Woke in all its manifestations.
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Leftism Means Coveting Power
There are many ways we could conceive of Leftism, and one of the best is that it is a covetous relationship with power.
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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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