The Curse of Postmodern Neo-Marxism in North American Education
For the last few decades, North American education schools have been ground zero for two dangerous intellectual movements: critical theory and postmodernism.
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How Woke Marxists Stole Reading: What is Critical Literacy?
Marxist brainwashing and radical activation is calling itself “critical literacy” so it can pass itself off as a literacy lesson.
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Curiosity Is a Cult Killer
I have a nagging question, one that I haven’t been able to shake since the very early days of my research: what happened to curiosity?
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Easter in the Woke Cult
James Lindsay pulls back the curtain on this cult belief Jo you can understand that we're dealing with the largest cult startup in history.
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Woke: A Culture War Against Europe | James Lindsay at the European Parliament
On March 29, 2023, James Lindsay delivered a short address before a conference at the European Union Parliament in Brussels, Belgium.
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The Workings of the Woke Cult
It has become relatively obvious that what goes by the term “Woke” refers to having been initiated into a cult.
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Wokeness and the Structure of Cults
It has become relatively obvious that what goes by the term “Woke” refers to having been initiated into a cult.
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The Dialectic of Social-Emotional Learning
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay goes through the incredibly well-funded initiative to transform Social-Emotional Learning even further into the Communist by reading through the majority of this "radport" from the Communities for Just Schools Fund.
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James Lindsay Goes to Oxford
Imagine my surprise. Late last summer, I got an email from the Oxford Union formally inviting me to debate the proposition “This House Believes Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far.”
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WTF is SEL?
What the F is Social-Emotional Learning? It's a serious question. Behind all the flowery language is a history, and that history demands looking at.
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Introducing The Marxification of Education
James Lindsay, host of the New Discourses Podcast, has written a new book called The Marxification of Education: Paulo Freire's Critical Marxism and the Theft of Education, which is available now.
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The Strange Death of the University, Part 4: The Strange Death of Knowledge
This chapter features one of the most dangerous and manipulative concepts to come out of the Woke Marxist movement, not least thanks to the work done by Paulo Freire: other ways of knowing.
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The Marxification of Education Workshop: All Sessions
Something has gone very badly wrong in education. Our schools are filled with divisive identity politics rooted in Marxist Critical Theory, but it seems almost impossible to nail down and fight against.
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Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
New Discourses Founder James Lindsay gives a deep, concerning, and thorough (but mere) introduction to the topic of Social-Emotional Learning in this last of four presentations on the Marxification of Education.
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Can We Trust Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)?
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay goes through portions of two documents about Social-Emotional Learning, one from UNESCO and one from USAID, and makes a strong case that however much you currently trust SEL, you should trust it less.
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“Groomer Schools”
New Discourses Founder James Lindsay summarizes what he means by the term "Groomer Schools" in this third of four presentations on the Marxification of Education delivered in late July 2022 in Arlington, Virginia, on location in the now-famous Loudoun County, ground zero for the fight for America's schools.
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What Does It Mean to Be Freirean?
Sustainability is to become our "New Sensibility," just like Herbert Marcuse called for in the second chapter of his 1969 Essay on Liberation.
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The Theft of American Education
The learning loss that follows from a “critical” education into "social and emotional learning" represents nothing short of an intentional theft of education from our children and our society.
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Paulo Freire and the Marxist Transformation of the Church
Join James to understand the goal of transforming the Christian churches in theory, practice, and agenda in this gripping podcast that exposes the roots and implementation of a devastating Marxist rot in mainline Christianity and thus the chief heresy of the twenty-first century.
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