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Pursuing the light of objective truth in subjective darkness.
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- The Good Vanguard, Bad Vanguard Strategy · 19 minNew 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 forward…
- The New Right and Its Lies · 1 h 29 minThe 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 faced in…
- Dialectics, Vol. 4: Iterated Dialectics and the Dialectical Ratchet · 19 minNew 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 laid the…
- The Myth of the Blood, Vol. 6: The Nazis' Satanic Yin and Luciferian Yang · 1 h 33 minThe 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, a kind…
- Dialectics, Vol. 3: Negation of the Negation · 16 minNew 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…
- Dialectics, Vol. 2: Unification of Opposites · 14 minNew 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 Marx but…
- Dialectics, Vol. 1: Quantity Becomes Quality · 11 minNew Discourses Bullets, Ep. 189 There's no understanding Woke without understanding its dialectical engine, which traces back through the Critical Theorists back through Lenin…
- What Is Socialism? · 1 h 16 minThe 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 relationship…
- Why the Labor Theory of Value Is Wrong · 26 minNew 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 just that…
- A Defense of the Practicality and Morality of Interest · 27 minNew 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 is an…
- On Power and Authority · 15 minNew 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 our…
- Recognizing and Breaking Woke Faith · 16 minNew 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 discussed…
- Totalitarianism and Its Purge Culture · 19 minNew 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 systems…
- Logos, Ethos, Pathos, and Woke · 55 minThe 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 tell…
- How Woke Creates a Low-Trust Society · 17 minNew 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 (and…
- Gender Ideology, Transgenderism, and "Doing Gender" · 3 h 6 minThe 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 is…
- Wages for Housework, Wages for Housewives · 1 h 43 minThe 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, but this…
- Epicycles and Conspiracy Theories · 15 minNew 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 planets…
- Michel Foucault and Woke Mental Illness · 26 minNew 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 for real…
- How the Communist Manifesto Explains the Red-Green Alliance · 18 minNew 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 page of…
- The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 17: Hitler at His Point · 49 minThe New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 222 If we really peel back so much of the ranting and the drama around the Nazi Experiment, what are we left with? Well, the…
- A Short, Comprehensive Definition of "Woke" · 15 minNew Discourses Bullets, Ep. 179 Woke can be summarized in a single, short way. Woke means thinking with critical theory and acting like a Leninist. That's all it really comes…
- The Myth of the Blood, Vol. 5: Pseudo-Gnostic Nazi German Mysticism · 2 h 15 minThe New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 221 However weird you thought the Nazis were before, they're weirder than that. In fact, they were outright mystics, and the…
- John Adams's 1765 Defense of Religious and Political Liberty · 2 h 6 minThe New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 220 In 1765, Great Britain had foolishly decided to continue escalating its attempts to recover the cost of the French and…
- Traditional Versus Critical Theory · 22 minNew Discourses Bullets, Ep. 178 Critical Theory originates in the formal sense from a 1937 essay penned by Frankfurt School director Max Horkheimer, bearing the title…
- The Foundational American View of Romans 13 · 2 h 7 minThe New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 219 The United States of America was founded on a very particular view of the people's right relationship to government…
- The Anatomy of a Critical Theory · 21 minNew Discourses Bullets, Ep. 177 In 1969, Max Horkheimer gave an interview in which he was called to account for his development of the Critical Theory and its application…
- Traditional and Critical Theory According to Max Horkheimer · 22 minThe New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 218 The school of thought known as Critical Theory was born, as we understand it today, in an essay written in 1937 by Max…
- A Short Defense of the Moral Institution of Profit · 27 minNew Discourses Bullets, Ep. 176 Profit is good. It is good practically, and it is good morally. Rarely today do we hear such a direct and clear statement or a thorough defense…
- We, the Screamers · 54 minThe New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 217 A very relatable feeling today is that of having something incredibly important to say while nobody listens. We go on…
- Resisting Welfare Mentality · 18 minNew Discourses Bullets, Ep. 175 Welfare mentality is believing that you should be given things you haven't earned because you simply deserve them, whatever the excuse. Maybe…
- Edward Said and How the West Went Woke · 1 h 34 minThe New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 216 In the late 1970s, a Palestinian-American postcolonial theorist and Columbia University literature professor named Edward…
- Reading the DSA Platform · 20 minNew Discourses Bullets, Ep. 174 The Democratic Socialists of America are making a bid to take over the Democratic Party, echoing the grim historical chapter during which Lenin's…
- The Myth of the Blood, Vol. 4: The Anti-Christian Foundation of Positive Christianity · 2 h 14 minThe New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 215 The Nazis had an ideological mission for their own Volk in addition to those we're all more familiar with from the dark…
- An Accessible Summary of Critical Theory · 23 minNew Discourses Bullets, Ep. 173 America and all of Western Civilization are being poisoned by a Western derivative of Marxism known ultimately as Critical Theory. So, what is…
- What Is the DSA Platform? · 1 h 59 minThe New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 214 The Democratic Party is in trouble. Many of us have known that for a long time, but only a few Democrats have. This is the…
- The Nature of Islam's Attack on Israel · 13 minNew Discourses Bullets, Ep. 172 Why are the various Islamic states around Israel so frequently hostile to it? Why are so many Muslims so antisemitic? Why is Islam itself coded…
- The Inseparable Relationship Between Islam and Islamism · 18 minNew Discourses Bullets, Ep. 171 A heated and important discussion rages about the two parallel terms "Islam" and "Islamism." Are they the same? Is there some difference? Is that…
- The Unwelcome Arrival of Woke 2.0 · 25 minNew Discourses Bullets, Ep. 170 Woke is coming back, but not the crude Identity Marxism (Intersectionality) of the 2010s and first years of the 2020s. A new Woke, a "Woke 2.0,"…
- Milestones, Vol. 4: Sayyid Qutb's Islamic Bolshevist Vanguard · 1 h 22 minThe New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 213 In the 1960s, a radical Islamic Salafist named Sayyid Qutb wrote a short little radical book called Milestones…
- The West Is Judeo-Christian-American · 30 minNew Discourses Bullets, Ep. 169 What are the foundations of "the West" as we understand it today? Many of us land on a hyphenated term that finds itself under attack in the…
- Propaganda and the Palestinian Cause · 1 h 22 minThe New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 212 The entire world is turning today around the "Palestinian" Cause, but what is it? It is a fabrication. It is a…
- Traditionalism with a Capital T: A Parasite on the Right · 28 minNew Discourses Bullets, Ep. 168 We're seeing a lot from the Right about a return to tradition... or is it to "Tradition"? As it turns out, there's yet another example of a…
- The Real Word for "Globalism" · 20 minNew Discourses Bullets, Ep. 167 Most of us, if you are a fan of New Discourses, at least, are opposed to "globalism," but we have a rather thin understanding of what it…
- The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 16: What Hitler Got Right, Wrongly · 2 h 21 minThe New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 211 Hitler didn't like parliaments. Indeed, much of his political formulation was based on his absolute hatred for them…
- Islam Is Sharia · 13 minNew Discourses Bullets, Ep. 166 Here in the West, we talk a lot about Islam and Sharia as though they're separate things. They are not separate things. Islam means submission…
- The Three Sides in the Ukraine War · 1 h 10 minThe New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 210 Moral clarity on the Ukraine War has been difficult for many Republicans. There are reasons for that, some good, some less…
- Twenty-First Century Propaganda Is Interactive · 14 minNew Discourses Bullets, Ep. 165 The propaganda we face in the twenty-first century has a new and different character that we must rapidly make ourselves aware of. It's…
- Milestones, Vol. 3: The Basic Nature of Islam · 1 h 27 minThe New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 209 One of the best ways to understand something is to turn to its sources and see for ourselves. We've made a brand of that…
- Is Bolshevism Really Jewish? · 34 minNew Discourses Bullets, Ep. 164 A popular line of propaganda since the Fascists and Nazis has been that Bolshevism, also called "Marxism-Leninism," is Jewish in origin…
