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The Woke Goal: Everything Serves Theory

What is the end-game of the Woke ideology? It's a hard question to answer, mostly because it's hard to tell where it will stop, but a proximate answer to that question is easy and needs to be understood.

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OnlySubs: How Wokeness Narrows Empathy

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I discuss this important and troubling aspect of the Woke ideology. I hope you'll join me and see why I find it so concerning.

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OnlySubs: They Want You to Quit. Don’t.

Join me here for a short discussion of this important point and, as has been said, don't let the bastards grind you down. Don't give them the satisfaction.

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A Values-Based Approach to Leaving Wokeness Behind

Join James in this episode of the New Discourses podcast, wherein he discusses why these are the right values as well as why we should hold the narrow way against other competitors in the space that will not produce results as good, including both the Very Smart "respectability" (blue pill) approach and the relatively hopeless "post-liberal" or "neoreactionary" approach (black pill, mostly).

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The Dawn of Medical Lysenkoism

The threat of Medical Lysenkoism is rapidly growing around us already, and we have to take it seriously and demand it be put to a halt.

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OnlySubs: Back to Normal: We Tried the Zoom Experiment

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OnlySubs: Back to Normal: We Tried the Zoom Experiment

Our "new normal" can involve Zoom, but it cannot be Zoom-dependent.

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OnlySubs: Don’t Quit at 19

We have a saying: "If it takes twenty years to get good, most people quit at nineteen." Join me in a short discussion of this idea and what it has to teach us and how it can improve your life.

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OnlySubs: Dealing With Demoralization

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I talk about demoralization and give some ideas of things you can do to resist its exhausting and depressing effects. Join me in not giving up!

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The First Worthy Criticism of Cynical Theories

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The First Worthy Criticism of Cynical Theories

If you have ever wondered about the backstory of the creation of the "Feminist Mein Kampf" paper really was, including why its authors did it, you won't want to miss this long-form discussion and rare response to yet another underinformed critic of Lindsay, Boghossian, and Pluckrose's work.

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OnlySubs: There Is No Evidence for Critical Race Theory

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OnlySubs: There Is No Evidence for Critical Race Theory

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I make a short argument that not only is there no evidence for Critical Race Theory, there cannot be evidence for Critical Race Theory, by virtue of the way that it has arranged its basic assumptions.

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OnlySubs: The Woke Don’t Understand Society

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I make the case that (left-leaning) academics are likely to be biased toward believing the institution is the fundamental unit of society, and this is why so many of their ideas are so disconnected from reality and, ultimately, statist in orientation.

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There Is No Good Part of Hitler's Mein Kampf

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There Is No Good Part of Hitler’s Mein Kampf

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OnlySubs: You Must Interact with Reality

I'm giving advice again, right here on James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast. This time, it's about interacting with reality, which is necessary and humbling and, most importantly, an important vaccine against bad abstract ideas.

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OnlySubs: Why You Should Do Difficult Things

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OnlySubs: Why You Should Do Difficult Things

in this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I offer you this advice: do something difficult, and do it to succeed. Challenge yourself, and don't give up. Endure. Join me to hear more about it.

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OnlySubs: How Wokeness Makes Conversations Impossible

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OnlySubs: How Wokeness Makes Conversations Impossible

Join me in this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, to understand more about this psychological reality to conversations, especially with the Woke, and what you might be able to do about it.

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OnlySubs: Critical Theory and Aufheben der Kultur

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OnlySubs: Critical Theory and Aufheben der Kultur

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I try to provide a short introduction to the concept of aufheben der Kultur, building on a recent episode of this same podcast that talks about aufheben in greater generality.

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OnlySubs: The Important Concept of Aufheben

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OnlySubs: The Important Concept of Aufheben

Join me in this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, for a short introductory discussion on the concept of aufheben and its applications in Critical Theory and beyond, including in Wokeness.

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The End of Civil Rights in Kimberlé Crenshaw's "Mapping the Margins"

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The End of Civil Rights in Kimberlé Crenshaw’s “Mapping the Margins”

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay continues his abridged reading of Kimberlé Crenshaw's famous (or infamous) paper, "Mapping the Margins," which appeared in the Stanford Law Review in 1991.

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OnlySubs: The Three Tactics of Wokeness

Join me on this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, as I outline these three tactics, where they come from, how they work, and what you might be able to do about them.

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Forging the Woke One Ring: Kimberlé Crenshaw's "Mapping the Margins"

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Forging the Woke One Ring: Kimberlé Crenshaw’s “Mapping the Margins”

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay reads through the introduction to "Mapping the Margins" and offers his commentary on the paper and its role as the birthplace (though not gestation) of the Woke movement and, as he and Helen Pluckrose named it in Cynical Theories, applied postmodernism.

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