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OnlySubs: Is Wokeness French or American?

  • March 6, 2021
  • James Lindsay
OnlySubs: Is Wokeness French or American?
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I try to go into the complicated relationship between French, American, and German ideas (and some British and Australian ones) as they have come together to form Wokeness, dipping even into Marx's reliance upon Rousseau, who the French certainly can't deny.
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Why the World is the Way It Is: Cultural Relativism and It’s Descendents
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Why the World is the Way It Is: Cultural Relativism and Its Descendents

  • November 12, 2020
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Relativism contends that all truth is relative except for the claim that “truth is relative.”
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The Most Dangerous Place To Be

  • September 2, 2020
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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
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2+2 Never Equals 5

  • August 3, 2020
  • James Lindsay
“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

  • July 28, 2020
  • James Lindsay
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

  • June 22, 2020
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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

  • June 18, 2020
  • James Lindsay and Mike Nayna
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’

  • June 13, 2020
  • James Lindsay
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?
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James Explains: What About Sociology?

  • May 30, 2020
  • James Lindsay
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
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Chasing the Norm on Near Dark Radio

  • May 27, 2020
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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
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Countering the Radical Left

  • April 28, 2020
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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

  • April 14, 2020
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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

  • April 13, 2020
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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

  • April 6, 2020
  • Helen Pluckrose
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

  • January 21, 2020
  • Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
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
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The Influence of Anti-Racist Scholarship-Activism on Evergreen College

  • January 19, 2020
  • Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
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
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A Postmodernism Postmortem

  • January 19, 2020
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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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The Guru Appeal of Jordan Peterson in Our Post-Everything World
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The Guru Appeal of Jordan Peterson in Our Post-Everything World

  • December 27, 2019
  • James Lindsay
Jordan Peterson’s star appeal isn’t curious at all to anyone who understands the inner mechanics of religious movements.
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