The Iterated Motte and Bailey Strategy
Host James Lindsay explains how the "motte and bailey" strategy can be iterated to give legitimacy to truly radical ideas.
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Am Yisrael Chai
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay talks about his recent (first ever) trip to Israel and what he learned most.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 7: The Nazi Rejection of Paperwork Germans
James Lindsay examines Hitler’s Mein Kampf in his Nazi Experiment series, exposing how totalitarian ideas resurface today in woke and populist movements.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 5: Forty Points for the Nazi Party
Lindsay tackles the "25 Points of the Nazi Party" along with the 12th and final chapter of the first volume of Mein Kampf.
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What Is the Mass Line?
Mao Zedong developed one of the most devastating dialectical techniques for mass mobilization ever conceived: the mass line.
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Why Cult Beliefs Don’t Stop When Proved Wrong
A cult called the Seekers was infiltrated by Leon Festinger to understand why they believed what they believed and how their beliefs worked
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 4: Nazi Worldview, Nazi Organization
Running until its catastrophic failure in 1945, the National Socialists under Adolf Hitler ran a societal experiment: the Nazi Experiment.
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Woke as Warring Narratives
James Lindsay reads from "The Book of Woke" to help you understand this bizarre and dangerous foundational perspective of Wokeness.
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The Parasitical Faith of Communism
I released a controversial podcast titled “Communism Is Not Atheist,” and a lot of people didn't really hear what I said in it.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 3: The Individual Nazi in the Nazi State
The third volume in a series on "the Nazi Experiment," which is largely but not entirely a direct exposé of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.
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Introducing the Nazi Experiment
In knowing that the Nazi Experiment was abjectly evil, we lost sight of why and how it was evil.
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The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 2: Hitler’s Nazi Race Ideology
James Lindsay takes us into Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf to explain exactly what Hitler believed the "master race" thing was about.
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What is Agitprop?
Host James Lindsay discusses the concept of agitprop to show you how to spot influence campaigns you might encounter online or in the news.
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Agitation and Propaganda: The Battlespace of the 21st Century
James Lindsay exposes the propaganda tactics behind psychological and political warfare, from Communists to Nazis.
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We Are the Fake News Now
"We are the media now!" So we hear. Much of that media is social media, and social media is a psychological and political warfare battlespace. More than that, it's incredibly fake.
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The Propaganda of Telling the Truth, Falsely
Propaganda takes many forms, and one of the most common is what can be called "telling the truth, falsely," or "being right, wrongly."
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OnlySubs: On the Iron Law of Woke Cosplay
In Frank Dikotter's "People's Trilogy," he outlines an important point about Communist society: what I call the Iron Law of Woke Cosplay.
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OnlySubs: The Long Roots of DEI Fraud
DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) is based on fraud. It's an old Communist standard common both to Mao's regime and the Soviet Union.
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Reflexivity: Leftism in the 21st Century
There's a new dialectical game in town that allows Marxists worldwide, and in the Chinese Communist Party, to transcend classical Marxism.
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How Tyrants Force Compliance
First, the population is split into those who comply with the tyrant's programs and policies and those who do not comply.
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