Critical America Theory, Left and Right
You can have a Critical Race Theory about race, a Critical Gender Theory about sex, even a Critical America Theory about America.
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Forced “Friendship” Under the Friend-Enemy Distinction
The friend-enemy distinction is the underlying organizational principle of the Marxist Left, radical Islam, and the Fascist Reactionary Left.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 12: Positive Christianity as the “Christian Nationalism” of the Third Reich
A "Christian Nationalist" movement is reaching into many legitimate anxieties of American Christians and turning them to its project.
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The Poison of Negative Idealism
Negative idealism explains why "critical" movements like Communism, Fascism, and Woke of all types trend toward violence.
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How the Friend-Enemy Distinction Poisons Politics
Carl Schmitt captured the essence of totalitarian politics in his book The Concept of the Political (1932). It is the distinction between friend and enemy. The poison of this kind of thinking is in the ugly fact that the declared enemy must be treated as the declared enemy once a political faction has declared one, and anyone who doesn't go along with that declaration declares himself one of the enemy.
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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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Introducing the Problem-Solving Theory of Value
What makes something valuable? How do we determine value? One hypothesis on value is famously forwarded and relied upon by the Marxists.
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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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Milestones, Vol. 2: Jahiliyyah, the False Consciousness of Islamism
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay goes back into the text of Milestones to discuss this important concept and its profound parallels to Marxist Communism.
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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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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 11: Dictatorship by Reichstag Fire
An undeniable part of the Nazi Experiment is that it operated a fascist-style dictatorship for its infamous "racialist worldview."
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Saving American Liberty: All Sessions
Watch James Lindsay and Michael O’Fallon in Dallas, TX, recorded August 22–23, 2025, to learn more about this rising threat and how we can save American liberty.
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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 Alchemy of the Dialectic
The dialectic is ultimately the engine of all Marxist and Hegelian thought and underlies the conflict between Fascism and Marxism.
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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 Woke Cult of Transgression
The principle of the cult of transgression is defined by Herbert Marcuse in “Repressive Tolerance”, where he calls it “liberating tolerance."
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Big Government Can’t Produce Abundance
Expanding the influence of government over the economy will not produce an economy more capable of solving problems real people have.
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The Essence of Critical Theory
Critical theory is a tool for delegitimizing a real thing for not being some kind of sociopolitical ideal thing that cannot even exist.
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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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