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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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Emergency and the Philosophy of Leftism

This philosophy is not exactly a deep resentment of the past; It’s a romantic resentment of history as civilization itself.

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The Book of Woke: Introducing Critical Constructivism

Host James Lindsay introduces a series exploring this book and exposing Woke for what it really is: a cult religious worldview.

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Doing Social Justice Responsibly

Pluckrose tackles the ideological excesses within social justice activism, offering a way to address social justice issues without abandoning reason.

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The Hoax that Broke the Conservative Internet

James Lindsay revealed a hoax against American Reformer by rewriting the Communist Manifesto to align with "Woke Right" ideology.

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Panel: Grievance Studies

In October 2019, James Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, Helen Pluckrose, and Mike Nayna gathered in London to reflect on the "Grievance Studies" project.

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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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Decoding Woke Ideologies: James Lindsay on The Joe Rogan Experience

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan engages in a thought-provoking conversation with renowned author, mathematician, and cultural critic, James Lindsay.

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The Current Thing Did Not Take Place

Host James Lindsay explains the maxim and Baudrillard's point and uses them to reveal Leftist tactics as well as political warfare strategies and counters. Join him to understand.

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Feminism is Feminist Gnosticism

In Simone de Beauvoir's famous work The Second Sex, she wrote one of the most famous lines in feminist thought: "One is not born but becomes woman."

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Two Wolves of Christian Nationalism

What in the world is "Christian Nationalism," and how in the world is it supposed to work?

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Exposing the Machinery of Modern Ideology: James Lindsay on The Joe Rogan Experience

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Exposing the Machinery of Modern Wokeness: James Lindsay on The Joe Rogan Experience

In his third appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, James Lindsay—author, mathematician, and founder of New Discourses—joins Joe Rogan for an in-depth discussion on contemporary cultural and political issues.

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The Calamity of Scientific Gnosticism

Scientific Gnosticism is perhaps the most calamitous ideological phylum human beings have so far managed to contrive.

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A Summary of Neo-Marxism

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, join James Lindsay as he reads through and adds nuance and detail to the relevant "neo-Marxism" entry in his Critical Social Justice Encyclopedia so that you can better understand where Wokeness comes from and how it thinks and operates.

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Hegel, Wokeness, and the Dialectical Faith of Leftism

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Hegel, Wokeness, and the Dialectical Faith of Leftism

In this episode, Lindsay takes considerable time explaining Hegel's view of dialectical thought and then reveals in many examples, reaching up to the present day, how consistently the dialectic appears as the functional underpinning of Leftism ever since, at the latest, the 1830s.

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Bourgeois Overproduction and the Problem of the Fake Elite

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Bourgeois Overproduction and the Problem of the Fake Elite

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay walks through the idea of elite overproduction to focus in on the operant problem that it leads to, bourgeois overproduction, and posits that this problem is the seat of the Woke menace and many of the large-scale ills that have arisen in similar form over the past few centuries in prosperous societies.

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How to End Vaccine Hesitancy

Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, in which he tries to articulate that principled argument for vaccine hesitancy and thus also the path away from it, should our institutional authorities want to achieve it.

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The Woke Rejection of the Reasonable

Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses podcast to learn about the long history of unreason in Wokeness and even its all-out rejection of the notion that anyone or any position at all can be reasonable in any meaningful sense.

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Equity and the Unmaking of UT Austin

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay takes this jargon-heavy plan and reads through it, breaking it down so that people outside of the inner circle of UT Austin's diversicracy can make sense of what these plans entail.

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Authenticity and the Woke Crisis of the Real

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Authenticity and the Woke Crisis of the Real

In this episode of the New Discourses podcast, join James Lindsay for a detailed discussion of the crisis of authenticity at the heart of the Woke project and its predecessors as well as a discussion of what it means to approach authenticity for yourself.

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Man With Three Faces: Politics, Pathology, and the Modern Selves

The Current Thing Did Not Take Place

Feminism is Feminist Gnosticism

Two Wolves of Christian Nationalism

The Calamity of Scientific Gnosticism

A Summary of Neo-Marxism

Hegel, Wokeness, and the Dialectical Faith of Leftism

Bourgeois Overproduction and the Problem of the Fake Elite

How to End Vaccine Hesitancy

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