The Woke Cult of Transgression
The principle of the cult of transgression is defined by Herbert Marcuse in “Repressive Tolerance”, where he calls it “liberating tolerance."
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Woke Left
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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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Twentieth Century Woke—Left and Right | James Lindsay
Join James Lindsay for this important lecture explaining the model and modes of "Woke" thinking in a historical context we already understand.
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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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The Difference Between Left and Right
The thing is, while radicalism and political violence are not (at present) "both sides" problems, temptation is a both-sides problem.
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We Must Win By the Book
We have to do everything by the book. It's not just that we need to on a matter of principle, though. We also must as a matter of strategy.
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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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OnlySubs: Should Conservatives “Reclaim” FDR?
James Lindsay walks through through Renn's argument for why conservatives need to "reclaim" FDR as one of their own.
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Woke Right: Same Energy, Opposite Direction
One of the best ways to think of “Woke Right” without getting into the philosophical and technical weeds is “same energy, opposite direction.”
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How “Woke Right” Beats the Dialectic
Host James Lindsay explains why the Woke Left cannot use the framing "Woke Right" the way it uses other labels, like "Alt Right" or "Neo-Fascist Right," in effect short circuiting the dialectic they depend on to drive their activism.
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The Woke Right’s Elitist Coup: Inside the MAGA Civil War
By necessity, we begin here: Most of MAGA is not Woke Right. Few conservatives even lean Woke Right.
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Totalitarian Stakeholderism, Left and Right
James Lindsay explains how the first true Stakeholder economy was instituted in Nazi Germany in 1937 with a National Socialist Shareholder Law.
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America’s Sons and the Dark Temptation of the Woke Right
Host James Lindsay takes a shockingly candid look at the dark soul and evil manipulation of the rising Woke Right and invites you to join him in putting a stop to it.
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Welcome to the Two-Front War Against Woke
In this free-ranging episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay discusses the current landscape in the civilizational fight against Woke in all its manifestations.
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Woke Marxism Rejects Prosperity
Woke Marxism isn't even interested in making things work. Woke Marxism is, by definition, hostile to making things work.
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