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The Woke Rejection of the Reasonable

Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses podcast to learn about the long history of unreason in Wokeness and even its all-out rejection of the notion that anyone or any position at all can be reasonable in any meaningful sense.

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Equity and the Unmaking of UT Austin

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay takes this jargon-heavy plan and reads through it, breaking it down so that people outside of the inner circle of UT Austin's diversicracy can make sense of what these plans entail.

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A Manifesto for the Based

The based aren’t about to live by ridiculous lies because they’ll be too busy laughing the bottom out from under them.

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Critical Race Theory: A Two-page Overview

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Critical Race Theory: A Two-page Overview

Critical Race Theory proceeds upon a number of dubious assumptions and by means of a variety of questionable methods.

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Authenticity and the Woke Crisis of the Real

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Authenticity and the Woke Crisis of the Real

In this episode of the New Discourses podcast, join James Lindsay for a detailed discussion of the crisis of authenticity at the heart of the Woke project and its predecessors as well as a discussion of what it means to approach authenticity for yourself.

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Communism Doesn’t Know How

On this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay gives an example of how a contemporary police abolitionist activist has made almost exactly this same argument perfectly explicitly and walks you through how you can spot it for what it is.

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The Woke Goal: Everything Serves Theory

What is the end-game of the Woke ideology? It's a hard question to answer, mostly because it's hard to tell where it will stop, but a proximate answer to that question is easy and needs to be understood.

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The Rise of the Woke Cultural Revolution

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The Rise of the Woke Cultural Revolution

What actually triggered the Woke Cultural Revolution in the West?

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A Values-Based Approach to Leaving Wokeness Behind

Join James in this episode of the New Discourses podcast, wherein he discusses why these are the right values as well as why we should hold the narrow way against other competitors in the space that will not produce results as good, including both the Very Smart "respectability" (blue pill) approach and the relatively hopeless "post-liberal" or "neoreactionary" approach (black pill, mostly).

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The Dawn of Medical Lysenkoism

The threat of Medical Lysenkoism is rapidly growing around us already, and we have to take it seriously and demand it be put to a halt.

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OnlySubs: Don’t Quit at 19

We have a saying: "If it takes twenty years to get good, most people quit at nineteen." Join me in a short discussion of this idea and what it has to teach us and how it can improve your life.

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OnlySubs: Dealing With Demoralization

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I talk about demoralization and give some ideas of things you can do to resist its exhausting and depressing effects. Join me in not giving up!

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The First Worthy Criticism of Cynical Theories

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The First Worthy Criticism of Cynical Theories

If you have ever wondered about the backstory of the creation of the "Feminist Mein Kampf" paper really was, including why its authors did it, you won't want to miss this long-form discussion and rare response to yet another underinformed critic of Lindsay, Boghossian, and Pluckrose's work.

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OnlySubs: There Is No Evidence for Critical Race Theory

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OnlySubs: There Is No Evidence for Critical Race Theory

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I make a short argument that not only is there no evidence for Critical Race Theory, there cannot be evidence for Critical Race Theory, by virtue of the way that it has arranged its basic assumptions.

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OnlySubs: The Woke Don’t Understand Society

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I make the case that (left-leaning) academics are likely to be biased toward believing the institution is the fundamental unit of society, and this is why so many of their ideas are so disconnected from reality and, ultimately, statist in orientation.

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There Is No Good Part of Hitler's Mein Kampf

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There Is No Good Part of Hitler’s Mein Kampf

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OnlySubs: You Must Interact with Reality

I'm giving advice again, right here on James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast. This time, it's about interacting with reality, which is necessary and humbling and, most importantly, an important vaccine against bad abstract ideas.

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OnlySubs: Why You Should Do Difficult Things

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OnlySubs: Why You Should Do Difficult Things

in this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I offer you this advice: do something difficult, and do it to succeed. Challenge yourself, and don't give up. Endure. Join me to hear more about it.

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OnlySubs: How Wokeness Makes Conversations Impossible

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OnlySubs: How Wokeness Makes Conversations Impossible

Join me in this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, to understand more about this psychological reality to conversations, especially with the Woke, and what you might be able to do about it.

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The Values of a Post-Woke World

If we continue fighting back—for pushing back is no longer enough—intelligently and firmly against the ideology of Critical Social Justice and the Woke movement it has spawned, we will find ourselves on the road to a post-Woke world, and it is not yet clear what that might look like.

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