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Herbert Marcuse and the Catastrophe of Solidarity

In this episode, join James as he reads through the final (shortest) part of this essay and connects it to the features of today's clownish world, from Antifa and other radical activism to divisive identity politics to stakeholder capitalism and sustainability metrics.

The Only Thing That Isn't Systemically Racist

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The Only Thing That Isn’t Systemically Racist

The more one reads of Herbert Marcuse, the father of the New Left, the less there is to recommend his ideas and more there is to recommend learning about them.

Marcuse's Subverting Forces in Transition

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Marcuse’s Subverting Forces in Transition

The more one reads of Herbert Marcuse, the father of the New Left, the less there is to recommend his ideas and more there is to recommend learning about them.

How to Make a Critical Theory Out of Anything

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How to Make a Critical Theory Out of Anything

Join James in this episode to hear how ridiculously simple and absurd it is so you can protect yourself from Critical Theories in other lines of thought.

Herbert Marcuse's "New Sensibility"

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Herbert Marcuse’s “New Sensibility”

So that you can better understand the moment we find ourselves in, James Lindsay has been reading "An Essay on Liberation" for the New Discourses Podcast in full, with his explanation and commentary. This is the second part of that series, reading through part two of Marcuse's infamous essay, "A New Sensibility."

Critical Race Praxis and the Weakness of Liberals

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Critical Race Praxis and the Weakness of Liberals

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay breaks down the distinction and intrinsic relationship between Critical Theory and Critical Praxis and thus why almost the entire discussion of what to do about this problem coming from liberal quarters misses the point and remains ineffective.

The Woke Manipulation of Democracy

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The Woke Manipulation of Democracy

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay walks you through more pieces of the Woke, neo-Marxist, and Marxist literature to make the case that when the Woke are calling for "democracy," they mean something that demands a very radical agenda along with it.

A Biological Foundation for Socialism?

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A Biological Foundation for Socialism?

In this first part of the series, James Lindsay reads through the introduction to the essay and its first of four parts, "A Biological Foundation for Socialism?"

The Virus of Critical Social Justice

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The Virus of Critical Social Justice

It is not normally appropriate to liken one's ideological opponents to something like a virus, but what should we do when the people who hold that ideology liken themselves to viruses like HIV, Ebola, and SARS?

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Why You Can Be Transgender But Not Transracial

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay goes through all of the heavy Theoretical detail to explain why it is, from within Theory, that you can be transgender but not transracial.

A Summary of Neo-Marxism

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A Summary of Neo-Marxism

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, join James Lindsay as he reads through and adds nuance and detail to the relevant "neo-Marxism" entry in his Critical Social Justice Encyclopedia so that you can better understand where Wokeness comes from and how it thinks and operates.

Hegel, Wokeness, and the Dialectical Faith of Leftism

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Hegel, Wokeness, and the Dialectical Faith of Leftism

In this episode, Lindsay takes considerable time explaining Hegel's view of dialectical thought and then reveals in many examples, reaching up to the present day, how consistently the dialectic appears as the functional underpinning of Leftism ever since, at the latest, the 1830s.

Bourgeois Overproduction and the Problem of the Fake Elite

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Bourgeois Overproduction and the Problem of the Fake Elite

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay walks through the idea of elite overproduction to focus in on the operant problem that it leads to, bourgeois overproduction, and posits that this problem is the seat of the Woke menace and many of the large-scale ills that have arisen in similar form over the past few centuries in prosperous societies.

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How to End Vaccine Hesitancy

Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, in which he tries to articulate that principled argument for vaccine hesitancy and thus also the path away from it, should our institutional authorities want to achieve it.

The Woke Rejection of the Reasonable

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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.

Equity and the Unmaking of UT Austin

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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.

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.

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.

Communism Doesn't Know How

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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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