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A First-Amendment Case for Freedom from the Woke Religion

The question of whether or not the worldview and practice—for practice it intentionally is—going variously by the names “Social Justice,” “Critical Social Justice,” or, more colloquially, “Woke” constitutes a religion is one of some general interest that seems to be growing.

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The Most Dangerous Place To Be

Most of the young people currently demolishing America’s statues were born too late to have picked up the habit from watching the attacks on statues of Lenin in the early 1990s, or of Saddam Hussein in the early 2000s.

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Postmodern Religion and the Faith of Social Justice

Increasingly, we are seeing insistences that Social Justice has become a new religion.

Chasing the Norm on Near Dark Radio

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Chasing the Norm on Near Dark Radio

Join James Lindsay as he sits down with Jon Gower of Near Dark Radio to talk about the controversial French postmodern philosopher Michel Foucault and whether his thought and legacy can be recovered from its clear adaptations and exploitation by the Critical Social Justice movement.

Postmodernism Versus Critical Social Justice

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Postmodernism Versus Critical Social Justice

James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose join old-school postmodernist and libertarian thinker Thaddeus Russell on the Unregistered podcast.

How French "Intellectuals" Ruined the West: Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained

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How French “Intellectuals” Ruined the West: Postmodernism & Its Impact

Postmodernism presents a threat not only to liberal democracy but to modernity itself.

Critical Theories: A Virus on a Liberal Body Politic

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Critical Theories: A Virus on a Liberal Body Politic

For this “virus,” we need a liberal immune response (critical thinking) that minimizes its influence while keeping the liberal body politic intact and healthy.

Reconstructing Derrida: The Poetics of Nonsense and the Rule of the Cool

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Reconstructing Derrida: The Poetics of Nonsense and the Rule of the Cool

Derrida is currently enjoying a new vogue as a kind of demon king in the theology of the movement led by such people as Jonathan Haidt, Jordan Peterson, and Camille Paglia against the irrationalism that has swept through the humanities in the English-speaking world, with Peterson describing Derrida as the “chief villain” in the story.

The Marketplace of Ideas and the Battle of Discourses

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The Marketplace of Ideas and the Battle of Discourses

We are currently caught up in a battle of discourses. Mostly, this battle rages between Critical Social Justice activists and right-wing populists, with the rest of us stuck somewhere in the middle and having to pick sides.

The Illiberalism of Social Justice

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The Illiberalism of Social Justice

Social Justice is a dangerous, illiberal ideology that is taking over society.

A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity

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A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity

Supporters of Modernity, whatever their political orientation, should unite against the anti-modernists.

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Check Your Progressive Privilege: John Rawls vs Moral Relativism

In 1971, liberal political philosopher John Rawls proposed in his influential book 'A Theory of Justice' what is perhaps the most famous and compelling progressive thought experiment ever considered.

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