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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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The EVILution of Communism Workshop: All Sessions

This workshop, hosted by James Lindsay, aims to explain and document the evolutionary transformation of Marxist theory and Communism throughout its history.

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OnlySubs: Theology and Musn’t

Theology provides, in addition to whatever else, a sense of the sacred and holy, which indicates by definition places not that we cannot go, or even should not go, but that we must not go.

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The Occult Theosophy of the United Nations

The United Nations is a religious organization and a theosophical cult based on an "evolutionary" vision for mankind that it wants to control.

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Disability Studies and the Limits to Equity

Host James Lindsay walks through four distinct models of interpreting disability and uses them to draw out the true limits to equity programs.

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The Problems with Classical Liberalism

Today, post-liberal movements on both the Left and the putative Right see these problems and are calling for Classical Liberalism's demise. But do they see the problems we face clearly and accurately?

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An Introduction to Classical Liberalism

The attacks on Classical Liberalism come from both the Left and the Right, and they succeed, as Solzhenitsyn put it, "because we do not love freedom enough."

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“Progressive Stack”

This is a scholarly paper titled 'The Progressive Stack: An Intersectional Feminist Approach to Pedagogy' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.

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Dispositions on Being

In this philosophical episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay explores four essential dispositions toward being: the Prison of Being, the Tragedy of Being, the Comedy of Being, and the Miracle of Being.

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The Gnostic Temptation

Why are Gnostic cults so tempting? Why do people get sucked into them? It's not because Gnostics go around telling people they're wrong. It's because they go around telling people they're limited.

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As Below, So Above

In the Esoteric Religion known as Hermeticism, there are a number of core principles of operation, perhaps most famously the Principle of Correspondence. It’s often worded “As above, so below,” but this is only half of the principle.

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Intersectionality Is American Maoism

It isn’t possible to discuss Intersectionality without starting with Kimberlé Crenshaw, who named it. Like with most Woke Marxist ideas, though, Intersectionality is recycled and repackaged, more than once. Crenshaw is therefore the wrong person to discuss to talk about the issue, but she’s a starting place.

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The Gnostic Parasite

In the second lecture in his “Secret Religions of the West” series, Lindsay explains that these “philosophies,” including Marxism, are actually mystical Esoteric cult religions posing as science, economics, and politics, and that their success in infiltrating our religions, societies, and institutions is down to their intrinsically parasitical nature.

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The Role of Consciousness and the Evolution of the Gospel of Marxism

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The Role of Consciousness and the Evolution of the Gospel of Marxism

In that Marxism is a theology that gives birth to a religion of Communism, it has to also have a process of conversion.

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Marx’s Ontology of Man and the Telos of History

For a century and a half, people have failed to recognize Marxism for what it is, a theology.

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The Dialectical Faith of Leftism

Marxism is a theology, and its religion is Communism.

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The Marxist Roots of DEI Workshop: All Sessions

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives have taken over the country, reaching into every aspect of our work, school, and lives.

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The Queer Gnostic Cult

Queer Theory is the doctrine of a cult. Strange as this gender ideology may seem, perverse as it is, it can only be understood in terms of the esoteric cult religious structures called Gnosticism and Hermeticism.

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