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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 49 Critical Theory evolved out of a pathological hatred. This hatred isn't just what you expect. Yes, the Critical Theorists hated capitalism, like all Marxists, but they hated something new about capitalism ...

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09.24.2021 The Birth of Identity Marxism as Critical Theory's New Proletariat The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 49 Critical Theory evolved out of a pathological hatred. This hatred isn't just what you expect. Yes, the Critical Theorists hated capitalism, like all Marxists, but they hated something new about capitalism ...
09.03.2021 Herbert Marcuse and the Catastrophe of Solidarity The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 48 Liberation Series, Part 4 of 4 We live in Herbert Marcuse's world. In a previous series on the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay made that clearer than ever by reading through ...
08.27.2021 The Only Thing That Isn't Systemically Racist The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 47 Systemic racism is said by Critical Race Theorists "ordinary, not aberrational—'normal science,' the usual way society does business, the common, everyday experience of most people of color in this country." As ...
08.18.2021 Marcuse's Subverting Forces in Transition The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 46 Liberation Series, Part 3 of 4 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 ...
08.13.2021 How to Make a Critical Theory Out of Anything The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 45 Critical Theories are almost embarrassingly simple. There's almost nothing to them. A Critical Theory of anything can easily be made by one of two routes. One: Take an existing Critical Theory ...
07.16.2021 Herbert Marcuse's "New Sensibility" The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 44 Liberation Series, Part 2 of 4 Herbert Marcuse is one of the most influential Leftist thinkers of the 1950s and 1960s, and for that reason he is often regarded as the ...
07.12.2021 Critical Race Praxis and the Weakness of Liberals The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 43 What's happening in our schools? It's obvious to everyone that Critical Race Theory (and the other Theories of Critical Social Justice) have been incorporated into them at virtually every level and ...
07.06.2021 The Woke Manipulation of Democracy The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 42 Many of you will already be very familiar with the fact that the Woke manipulate language, often by meaning more than one thing by a term. One meaning will be quite ...
06.23.2021 Why Critical Race Theory Is Un-American \| OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Ep. 49 This episode of the OnlySubs Podcast with James Lindsay is available for FREE to everyone! To get access to all past and future episodes, consider becoming a contributor. Learn more by clicking here: https://newdiscourses.com/2020/12/announcing-new-subscribers-only-podcast-james-lindsay/ Critical Race Theory tries to bill ...
06.22.2021 A Biological Foundation for Socialism? The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 41 The Critical Theorist and neo-Marxist Herbert Marcuse was one of the most influential radical Leftist thinkers of the 20th century, and this fact is evident throughout his writing. The depth of ...
06.12.2021 The Virus of Critical Social Justice The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 40 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 ...
06.10.2021 Why You Can Be Transgender But Not Transracial The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 39 One of the more peculiar features of the Theory of Critical Social Justice for many people is why it is acceptable under Theory to be trangender but absolutely forbidden to be ...
06.03.2021 A Summary of Neo-Marxism The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 38 At the heart of the "Woke" (Critical Social Justice) movement is the abuse of language, which is perpetrated in order to abuse power. Therefore, at the heart of the New Discourses ...
05.28.2021 Hegel, Wokeness, and the Dialectical Faith of Leftism The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 37 Is Critical Race Theory Marxist, as many insist, or is it not? What is the relationship between Marxism, neo-Marxism (Critical Theory), and Wokeness? All three criticize one another, and yet all ...
05.20.2021 Bourgeois Overproduction and the Problem of the Fake Elite The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 36 Elite overproduction is a concept that was forwarded by the anthropologist Peter Turchin to attempt to explain some part of why we face growing social instability in today's society. This is ...
05.17.2021 How to End Vaccine Hesitancy The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 35 Not gonna lie, the title of this episode of the New Discourses Podcast is a bit of a bait-and-switch, so I hope it doesn't put you off. The thing is, there ...
05.07.2021 The Woke Rejection of the Reasonable The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 34 Society depends upon the people in it being able to rely upon expectations about how it and the other people in it will function. This requires a sense of what is ...
05.03.2021 Equity and the Unmaking of UT Austin The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 33 Following in the footsteps of The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, he University of Texas, Austin, has initiated a campus-wide plan to force diversity, equity, and inclusivity into the administrative ...
04.28.2021 Authenticity and the Woke Crisis of the Real The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 32 Wokeness exists in a crisis of authenticity. This is no surprise since both of its main philosophical predecessors, neo-Marxist Critical Theory and postmodernism, are both their own forms of reaction to ...
04.23.2021 Communism Doesn't Know How The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 31 At the heart of communist and communistic thought is faith in a kind of historical trajectory toward utopia that's driven by social alchemy. There are many reasons why this fails in ...
04.19.2021 The Woke Goal: Everything Serves Theory The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 30 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 ...
04.13.2021 A Values-Based Approach to Leaving Wokeness Behind The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 29 If we are fortunate enough to leave Wokeness and Critical Theory behind us, we need a map. We need to know what a post-Woke world would look like and, more importantly, ...
04.09.2021 The Dawn of Medical Lysenkoism The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 28 The agriculturalist Trofim Lysenko should be a household name throughout the world in roughly the same way that Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Mao Zedong are or should be. That is, ...
04.01.2021 The First Worthy Criticism of Cynical Theories The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 27 There is a fair amount of criticism of my recent book Cynical Theories (https://amzn.to/3sEJF5X) (written with Helen Pluckrose) out there now, mostly from philosophers who aren't up to the task. It ...
03.26.2021 There Is No Good Part of Hitler's Mein Kampf The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 26 As most New Discourses fans will know, back in October 2018, James Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, and Helen Pluckrose burst onto the scene with a scandalous expose of Critical Social Justice scholarship ...
03.15.2021 The End of Civil Rights in Kimberlé Crenshaw's "Mapping the Margins" The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 25 In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay continues his abridged reading of Kimberlé Crenshaw's famous (or infamous) paper, "Mapping the Margins," which appeared in the Stanford Law Review ...
03.10.2021 Forging the Woke One Ring: Kimberlé Crenshaw's "Mapping the Margins" The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 24 "Mapping the Margins," by Kimberlé Crenshaw, is an academic law paper that changed the world (abridged pdf here). It was published in the Stanford Law Review in 1991 and makes the ...
03.03.2021 Aufheben der Dr. Seuss The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 23 Aufheben is a German word that, in Critical Theory, means to "abolish" or to "negate" in the way that Critical Theorists do. It's a somewhat complicated term in that it means ...
02.15.2021 NO! Critical Race Theory Does NOT Continue the Civil Rights Movement The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 22 Critical Race Theorists like to claim that they have inherited and continue the noble legacy and justice work of the Civil Rights Movement, but this is an abject lie. In this ...
02.11.2021 How the Woke Fail the Paradox of Tolerance The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 21 In 1945, even as the Nazis fell from power, Karl Popper told us how to find the line where free, liberal societies are in imminent danger in his book The Open ...
02.08.2021 Critical Theorists as Grand Inquisitors: The Logic of "Repressive Tolerance" The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 20 Repressive Tolerance Series, Part 4 of 4 In this fourth and final part of his four-part lecture series about "Repressive Tolerance," James Lindsay takes the reader from the darkest point of ...
02.03.2021 Repressive Tolerance: Left Good, Right Bad, What Could Go Wrong? The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 19 Repressive Tolerance Series, Part 3 of 4 In this third part of James Lindsay's lecture series on Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance," we see how the essay takes a particularly dark turn. ...
01.29.2021 One Pill, Two Pill, Red Pill, Blue Pill: Herbert Marcuse and the Administered Society The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 18 Repressive Tolerance Series, Part 2 of 4 In this second part of his annotated reading of Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance," James Lindsay reads and explains the portion of the essay where Marcuse ...
01.26.2021 How Not to Resolve the Paradox of Tolerance The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 17 Repressive Tolerance Series, Part 1 of 4 We live in a crazy world today that seems to have gone off the rails. That's because it is being driven by a broken ...
01.21.2021 Antonio Gramsci, Cultural Marxism, Wokeness, and Leninism 4.0 The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 16 If you want to understand the present moment, especially how similar Wokeness seems to Mao's Cultural Revolution, you have to understand the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci wrote a series of ...
01.13.2021 The Birth of a New American Mythology The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 15 We are witnessing the birth of a new national mythology in America, and it is not good news. Imperfect as it was, the old one was better, warts and all, and ...
01.07.2021 The Nature of Pseudo-Reality The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay - Episode 14 In a recent long-form essay on New Discourses (https://newdiscourses.com/2020/12/psychopathy-origins-totalitarianism/), James Lindsay explained the origins of totalitarianism in a single word: psychopathy. There, he explained that totalitarianism arises from people who ...
11.30.2020 The Next Chapter of the American Story Human beings think in stories. We understand ourselves and the world, societies, social groups, and contexts we live in that way. One type of story is a national story, and in this episode of the New Discourses podcast, James Lindsay ...
10.21.2020 Biden Is Not The Room James Lindsay recently said on Twitter that he will vote "unhappily" for Republicans including Trump in these troubled times after seeing an argument that the left should work to abolish the Constitution. Join him on this episode of the New ...
09.25.2020 Understanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion We live in an era of unprecedented pressure for ideologically based organizational trainings: anti-racist, racial sensitivity, unconscious bias, cultural awareness, and, perhaps most commonly, some combination of "diversity, equity, and inclusion." We're also rapidly waking up to the fact that ...
09.04.2020 How Social Justice Silences \| Peter Boghossian Follow Peter at twitter.com/peterboghossian Support New Discourses: patreon.com/newdiscourses subscribestar.com/newdiscourses Website: newdiscourses.com Follow: facebook.com/newdiscourses twitter.com/NewDiscourses instagram.com/newdiscourses pinterest.com/newdiscourses/ linkedin.com/company/newdiscourses minds.com/newdiscourses reddit.com/r/NewDiscourses Podcast: @newdiscourses podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-…es/id1499880546 play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#…nzwvdjjpd6gg3cmuy open.spotify.com/show/0HfzDaXI5L4LnJQStFWgZp stitcher.com/podcast/new-discourses © 2020 New Discourses. All rights reserved.
08.14.2020 Two and Two Make Four We have to talk about 2+2. Unfortunately. Most unfortunately. This is because what looks like a simple and profoundly stupid Twitter fight must be understood in the full context in which it is playing out. This context is, in fact, ...
07.20.2020 Saying No to Critical Race Theory I want to explain Critical Race Theory to you. I just want to help you understand it, so I sat down with my microphone and no real plan except to talk through the claims, history, and thought of Critical Race ...
06.22.2020 The Evolution Of Postmodern Thought \| Helen Pluckrose Helen Pluckrose develops the definition of "Social Justice" as it is used in the academic literature in this tradition, explains its connections to identity politics and the political correctness movement, and then shows the relevance of the original postmodernists to ...
06.16.2020 In Defense Of The Status Quo Join Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast for a little over an hour of common sense in his liberal defense of the so-called "status quo." Support New Discourses: https://patreon.com/newdiscourses Website: https://newdiscourses.com Follow: https://facebook.com/newdiscourses https://twitter.com/NewDiscourses https://instagram.com/newdiscourses https://pinterest.com/newdiscourses/ https://linkedin.com/company/newdiscourses ...
06.02.2020 Staying Sane in an Age of Narratives In my line of work taking on Critical Social Justice and other forms of increasingly dominant societal insanity, I get asked a lot of questions. If there's one question I'm asked more often than any other, it's how don't I ...
05.07.2020 Stealing the Motte: Critical Social Justice and the Principle of Charity There is a rhetorical strategy called the “motte and bailey” that is getting increasingly famous lately. This is because it is one of the central tools of the Critical Social Justice movement. In that strategy, named after a kind of ...
04.13.2020 Age of Narratives and the Postmodern Democratic Political Regime On this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, your host James Lindsay explores the concept of political regimes through American history. From Washington, to Lincoln, to Roosevelt, right up through W and Obama, the “US of A” has seen a ...
04.04.2020 How the Woke Virus Infects Academia and Our Covid-19 Response Critical Social Justice operates like a virus. I’ve said it about them; they say it about themselves; we’re all in agreement. It infects liberal institutions and liberal-minded people (philosophically speaking, whether on the left, right, or center), perverts “critical” as ...
04.03.2020 Why Professors Fear to Livestream Critical Social Justice Classes James lindsay takes a few minutes to dig deeply into the mindset of Critical Social Justice to explain exactly why its proponents are so reluctant to be seen applying their work in administrative and educational spheres. Support New Discourses: patreon.com/newdiscourses ...

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The Birth of Identity Marxism as Critical Theory's New Proletariat

Herbert Marcuse and the Catastrophe of Solidarity

The Only Thing That Isn't Systemically Racist

Marcuse's Subverting Forces in Transition

How to Make a Critical Theory Out of Anything

Herbert Marcuse's "New Sensibility"

Critical Race Praxis and the Weakness of Liberals

The Woke Manipulation of Democracy

Why Critical Race Theory Is Un-American | OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Ep. 49

A Biological Foundation for Socialism?

The Virus of Critical Social Justice

Why You Can Be Transgender But Not Transracial

A Summary of Neo-Marxism

Hegel, Wokeness, and the Dialectical Faith of Leftism

Bourgeois Overproduction and the Problem of the Fake Elite

How to End Vaccine Hesitancy

The Woke Rejection of the Reasonable

Equity and the Unmaking of UT Austin

Authenticity and the Woke Crisis of the Real

Communism Doesn't Know How

The Woke Goal: Everything Serves Theory

A Values-Based Approach to Leaving Wokeness Behind

The Dawn of Medical Lysenkoism

The First Worthy Criticism of Cynical Theories

There Is No Good Part of Hitler's Mein Kampf

The End of Civil Rights in Kimberlé Crenshaw's "Mapping the Margins"

Forging the Woke One Ring: Kimberlé Crenshaw's "Mapping the Margins"

Aufheben der Dr. Seuss

NO! Critical Race Theory Does NOT Continue the Civil Rights Movement

How the Woke Fail the Paradox of Tolerance

Critical Theorists as Grand Inquisitors: The Logic of "Repressive Tolerance"

Repressive Tolerance: Left Good, Right Bad, What Could Go Wrong?

One Pill, Two Pill, Red Pill, Blue Pill: Herbert Marcuse and the Administered Society

How Not to Resolve the Paradox of Tolerance

Antonio Gramsci, Cultural Marxism, Wokeness, and Leninism 4.0

The Birth of a New American Mythology

The Nature of Pseudo-Reality

The Next Chapter of the American Story

Biden Is Not The Room

Understanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

How Social Justice Silences | Peter Boghossian

Two and Two Make Four

Saying No to Critical Race Theory

The Evolution Of Postmodern Thought | Helen Pluckrose

In Defense Of The Status Quo

Staying Sane in an Age of Narratives

Stealing the Motte: Critical Social Justice and the Principle of Charity

Age of Narratives and the Postmodern Democratic Political Regime

How the Woke Virus Infects Academia and Our Covid-19 Response

Why Professors Fear to Livestream Critical Social Justice Classes

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