Left and Right with Society in the Balance | James Lindsay
What are "Left" and "Right," politically? Where does political extremism come from, on both sides, in our present era of polarization?
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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 Thing You Run Into When Your Beliefs Are False
Lindsay advocates evidence-based inquiry and shows how critical theory ignores "reality is what you run into when your beliefs are false."
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National Divorce Is National Suicide
National Divorce is National Suicide, and we’re only considering it because we’re being driven into the despair necessary to commit it.
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OnlySubs: Don’t Blame Metal for Rust
It's a very popular trope on the reactionary right that Marxism, Communism, Wokeness, or what-have-you in the world of progressive Leftist excesses is the logical endpoint of liberalism.
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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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