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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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2+2 Never Equals 5

“Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2=4. If that is granted, all else follows” -George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four

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The Complex Relationship between Marxism and Wokeness

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The Complex Relationship between Marxism and Wokeness

People who observe that Marxism is somehow tied into all of this Woke stuff, then, are certainly not wrong, but it just as certainly isn’t Marxism.

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Helen Pluckrose: The Evolution of Postmodern Thought

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Helen Pluckrose: The Evolution of Postmodern Thought

Helen Pluckrose develops the definition of "Social Justice" as it is used in the academic literature in this tradition, explains its connections to identity politics and the political correctness movement, and then shows the relevance of the original postmodernists to this Theory in some detail.

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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.

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A Principled Statement of Opposition to Critical Race Theory: An Excerpt from 'Cynical Theories'

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A Principled Statement of Opposition to Critical Race Theory: An Excerpt from ‘Cynical Theories’

Last year, Helen Pluckrose and I dedicated most of our time to writing a book about how “activist scholarship” has risen to prominence and created societal conditions that threaten to rip our societies apart.

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James Explains: What About Sociology?

Sociology is a complicated topic. As we said when we went public with the Grievance Studies Affair, and as we have come to understand even better since, it's best to think of grievance studies as a kind of infection.

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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.

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Countering the Radical Left

James Lindsay joins Max Klinger on the E2 Review Podcast to discuss Critical Social Justice.

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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.

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Welcome to the American Postmodern Political Regime

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Age of Narratives and the Postmodern Democratic Political Regime

On this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, your host James Lindsay explores the concept of political regimes through American history.

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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.

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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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Teaching to Transgress: Rage and Entitlement at Evergreen College

January 20, 2020
Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay and Mike Nayna

What happened just under two years ago at Evergreen State College needs to be seen to be believed. It also needs to be made sense of because, without an understanding…

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The Influence of Anti-Racist Scholarship-Activism on Evergreen College

This belief system worked its way into Evergreen State College and destroyed all that it once stood for.

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A Postmodernism Postmortem

Join James Lindsay as he sits down with Benjamin Boyce for a open-ended discussion of postmodernism, critical race Theory, and the various critical theories that characterize the Critical Social Justice movement today.

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