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The Good Vanguard, Bad Vanguard Strategy

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 193 Radical movements often tend to advance themselves by means of a vanguard approach in which a radical front pushes the issues and agenda

Nov 9
18 min

The New Right and Its Lies

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 228 The Woke Right that calls itself the New Right is one of the most deceptive movements American conservatives have

Nov 6
1 h 29 min

Dialectics, Vol. 4: Iterated Dialectics and the Dialectical Ratchet

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 192 Recently on the New Discourses Bullets podcast, host James Lindsay laid out the three classical dialectics of both Hegel and Marx, which

Nov 4
18 min

The Myth of the Blood, Vol. 6: The Nazis' Satanic Yin and Luciferian Yang

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 227 The way the Nazis regarded themselves and their ideology is a fascinating story of differentiation and elevation,

Nov 2
1 h 33 min

Dialectics, Vol. 3: Negation of the Negation

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 191 Woke thinking runs on a dialectical engine, which it inherits not just from Lenin and Marx but also from Hegel. The usual formulation for

Oct 30
16 min

Dialectics, Vol. 2: Unification of Opposites

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 190 The only way to understand Woke thinking is to understand its dialectical foundations, which run all the way back not only to Lenin and M

Oct 28
13 min

Dialectics, Vol. 1: Quantity Becomes Quality

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 189 There's no understanding Woke without understanding its dialectical engine, which traces back through the Critical Theorists back through

Oct 26
10 min

What Is Socialism?

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 226 Popularity of socialism is rapidly on the rise, especially among American youth, but what is it? What is its relat

Oct 23
1 h 16 min

Why the Labor Theory of Value Is Wrong

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 188 Karl Marx turned an economic idea called the labor theory of value into a theory of resentment and exploitation. The thing is, it's not j

Oct 21
26 min

A Defense of the Practicality and Morality of Interest

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 187 On both Left and Right, our young people are turning against the concept of interest, like money making money for being loaned out. This

Oct 19
26 min

On Power and Authority

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 186 There's a fundamental difference between mere power and legitimate authority, and that difference needs to be dragged into the center of

Oct 16
15 min

Recognizing and Breaking Woke Faith

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 185 Woke beliefs, including in the potential success of socialism, antiracism, etc., are held on faith. That faith is just like the faith dis

Oct 14
15 min

Totalitarianism and Its Purge Culture

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 184 Why does every totalitarian system enact so many and such brutal purges, even genocides, of its enemies? The reason is the logic of the s

Oct 12
19 min

Logos, Ethos, Pathos, and Woke

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 225 We all know by now that Woke presents an inverted world and then traps people into it. The Woke mind struggles to

Oct 9
54 min

How Woke Creates a Low-Trust Society

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 183 The price of a Woke society is having a low-trust society. There's a reason for this, and it's not just that Woke is fundamentally a scam

Oct 7
17 min

Gender Ideology, Transgenderism, and "Doing Gender"

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 224 To view the issue optimistically, the medical front of the battle against gender ideology and transgender medicine

Oct 5
3 h 06 min

Wages for Housework, Wages for Housewives

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 223 Should housewives be paid by the state to be housewives? In some sense, it's an issue that's in present-day news,

Sep 29
1 h 43 min

Epicycles and Conspiracy Theories

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 182 Before the geocentric model of the universe fell and was replaced by the heliocentric model of the solar system, the movement of the plan

Sep 21
14 min

Michel Foucault and Woke Mental Illness

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 181 Surely you have noticed a couple of things about Woke. First, it acts like mental illness. Second, it actually valorizes mental illness f

Sep 11
26 min

How the Communist Manifesto Explains the Red-Green Alliance

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 180 Did you know the explanation for the Communist side of the Red-Green Alliance, including "Queers for Palestine," can be found on the last

Sep 2
17 min

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This podcast has been very helpful in learning how and why society is going the direction it is. It really is like a class lecture, brought to the level of the curious learner. I appreciate this podcast so much.

Runninracher1981 · Sep 2024

Everything I wanted from a podcast/philosophy class. It’s refreshing to hear a more informed view on the world now. Lindsey seems to know something about everything. It’s nice that he critiques and reads from the sources instead of talking about what everyone in said camp believes. The only thing I’d change is maybe have less swearing and more articulation on why he detests a system or idea.

'Cuzisaidso · Aug 2024

Dr. Lindsay has an incredible mind capable of cutting through complicated academic jargon to get to the root of dangerous ideas like critical theories and sociopolitical instantiations of these ideas like socioemotional learning. That being said, his reasoning can sometimes be a bit hard to follow and so it’s hard to tell if his evidence always supports his claim. Easily one of the most important voices of our day!

64SquishyOranges · Sep 2023

James never disappoints.Every episode is a succinct explanation of topical issues with x-ray vision insight.

Takoateli · Jul 2023

You are on the right track but you to provide enough application to what you are proposing. For example, the episode call the Affordance Trap. You basically spend 12 minutes repeating that this is what an affordance trap is but you do t give practical examples and enough examples on how to beat it. On the right track but provide more application please.

Sabot6 · Mar 2024

Right leaning propaganda and opinion disguised as intellectual and factual. Inflammatory ideas, black and white thinking, polarizing. Interesting, but take it with a grain of salt. Could be manipulative for individuals looking for answers or a sense of community in the wrong places. The host talks in absolute, and subjective terms, using words like “they” and “you”. To paint it as if the *entire* left uses this *one* book Beautiful Trouble written in the 1960’s as the bible for their activism is grossly overgeneralizing. Where’s the proof? Or is this just opinion? To say the left knows exactly how to get police to beat them up at protests, for the purpose of painting the police in a bad light, is saying the police have absolutley none of their own agency to make their own choices and they’re being forced by the left to commit such crimes of brutality is just outright ludicrous. The language used seems very personal like he’s talking directly to a viewer in an intimate way, and validating all of their fears the right has been stoking for decades to win votes while they accomplish nothing for the general masses. We need to fight the disease of the broken system, instead of fighting the smoke and mirrors and symptoms. People need to come together and see things through an intellectual critical lens, and form communities instead of being driven further apart by this type of propaganda.

Nic47372 · Oct 2023

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