Podcasts about cynical theories

Dr. Lindsay is an American-born author, mathematician, founder of New Discourses, and self-described professional troublemaker. Known for his sharp wit and thought-provoking insights, he is a leading critic of Critical Race Theory and "Woke" ideology. His bestselling books, including Cynical Theories and Race Marxism, have sparked global dialogue and been translated into over a dozen languages. Through his podcast, speaking engagements, and media appearances on platforms like The Joe Rogan Experience, Fox News, and NPR, Dr. Lindsay challenges divisive ideologies and invites audiences to think critically and engage meaningfully with today’s cultural issues. Tune in as controversial writer and podcast host, Damien Grant, interviews a wide selection of interesting and entertaining individuals, authors, business people, politicians and anyone else actually willing to talk to him.

It's easy to say that "woke ideology" is a nonsense. It's much harder to say that when your job, your social status, or your friendships may be put at risk by doing so. We need a practical, principled approach to fighting back against wokeism. Enter Helen Pluckrose. Helen is a political and cultural author and speaker. She is the co-author of ‘Cynical Theories', which was book of the year in The Times, Sunday Times and Financial Times. Her latest book, 'The Counterweight Handbook,' is a practical guide to help you survive and defeat critical social justice at school, at work, and beyond.Follow Will Kingston and Fire at Will on social media here.Read The Spectator Australia here.

The stated goals of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are often reasonable, if not noble—to create a more welcoming and inclusive environment for all. Yet, as more and more people are discovering, DEI as commonly practiced isn't a natural extension of past civil rights movements or an ethical framework for opposing discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, etc. Rather, it is inextricably connected with an illiberal and authoritarian ideology—Critical Social Justice—that demands adherence to its tenets and punishes any dissent from its dogma. Even the mildest questions about Critical Social Justice claims—that all white people are racists, that all underrepresented minorities are oppressed, that sex and gender differences have no biological basis, that censorship is a necessary good—are regularly met by DEI trainers and HR officers with pat commands: “Educate yourself,” “Do the work,” “Listen and learn.” At work, raises, promotions, and future employment often depend on our nodding approval of such claims. At school, grades, nominations, and awards are often contingent upon our active agreement with these beliefs. In our daily lives, Critical Social Justice ideology poses a genuine threat not only to our fundamental rights but also to the future of our democratic systems, but if we suggest this, we risk being canceled or shunned by community members. When facing a choice between silent submission and risky if ethical opposition, what is a person to do? While a growing number of groups concerned about the nature of Critical Social Justice have begun to attack it from the top down through legal, financial, and political means, The Counterweight Handbook takes a decidedly different and novel approach. It works from the bottom up and is written to empower individuals who wish to combat Critical Social Justice in their personal and professional lives. Based on the author's years of experience studying, exposing, and fighting Critical Social Justice ideology and advising individuals and organizations struggling with it, The Counterweight Handbook is designed to help people address Critical Social Justice problems in the most ethical and effective way possible. It not only offers principled responses to the main claims of Critical Social Justice but also teaches individuals what to do when they are asked to affirm beliefs they do not hold, undergo training in an ideology they cannot support, or submit to antiscientific testing and retraining of their “unconscious” minds. In short, it is for all of us who believe in freedom of speech and conscience, who wish to push back against the hostile work and educational environments Critical Social Justice has created, and who want to stand up for our individual liberties and universal rights. Helen Pluckrose is a liberal political and cultural writer and was one of the founders of Counterweight. A participant in the Grievance Studies Affair probe that highlighted problems in Critical Social Justice scholarship, she is the coauthor of Cynical Theories and Social (In)justice. She lives in England and can be found on X @HPluckrose Shermer and Pluckrose discuss: origin of the problem • DEI and CRT • what it means to “Educate yourself,” “Do the work,” “Listen and learn.” • top-down vs. bottom-up counter measures • race reckoning • antiracism • gender ideology • decolonizing and dismantling • fragility • intersectionality • normativity • positionality • privilege • wokeness.

I spoke with Helen Pluckrose about her forthcoming book, The Counterweight Handbook, the differences between CSJ and liberalism, and techniques for pushing back against CSJ ideologies. Follow me: @Dangerousspeach 
Follow Helen: @HPluckrose You can read Helen's writing here: https://helenpluckrose.substack.com/ You can order The Counterweight Handbook here: https://www.amazon.com/Counterweight-Handbook-Principled-Strategies-Justice_at/dp/1634312287/ref=sr_1_1?crid=33VETH9XJF4DW&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.WgHUxpQxCQVDEiOeWkMT01Vwz0aKOTQfL3kzFPAuS0MiDlT5wGp2pzj4csq2cGyW.6oLuW9lOcrBU3Pa_Dpc85FgNgoNI_uEH09ExP1CMKsU&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+counterweight+handbook&qid=1716031323&sprefix=The+counterweight+%2Caps%2C112&sr=8-1
 You can get Cynical Theories here: https://www.amazon.com/Cynical-Theories-Scholarship-Everything-Everybody/dp/B08LDSWJ9V/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1BDXTEUKTA5I4&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Jr-8Si3y-CoDBap-V0rYHfeBSLHPGE56yChUI-4-1m-8nqsUF0mSril3IjHvERvSVWwkaIGoS2LwFdnPjETnkyjFyvdvAMqtw6Bo8VdUszqmzvYis27h1zzkj1EuEEOlfUK52kOwUhMQnqxuvm9HOAMj8XbNP50O0dP0CAwskKJ4haHghSLdeG8GOtxfyEiN21KizMKSQhbIshJY-etbWjpSJHdMy78C_6jAv611Muc.36KE_enU1XFBXh8SMSW0F8UXdUMK_brvwleq8J9J43c&dib_tag=se&keywords=cynical+theories&qid=1716031167&sprefix=cynica%2Caps%2C100&sr=8-1 You can get Social Injustice here: https://www.amazon.com/Social-justice-Important-Wrong-Reader-Friendly/dp/1634312236/ref=sr_1_1?crid=20QNU9IDBW1F&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.2OUzhqD07lTUUuTUdUFhy19n7ar9-a-J2OD-YBYS4GTGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.tJDlbAw74R0Rj9d8D3k-Q6w1txjrqqXu8Kh70L-tstA&dib_tag=se&keywords=Social+injustice+helen+pluckrose&qid=1716031219&s=audible&sprefix=social+injustice+helen+pluckrose%2Caudible%2C109&sr=1-1

Jim talks with James Lindsay about the ideas in his recent essay "National Divorce Is National Suicide." They discuss the meaning of a national divorce (where the United States would split into two countries), different shapes it could take, the possibility of parallel experiments in civilization design, statistics on support for the idea, the proposed Belgian split, steelmanning the opposition, reducing the chances of a Civil War, the divide over gun rights & abortion, the Big Sort, why national divorce would be a disaster, how the media would frame a national divorce, bifurcation of constitutional evolution, whether we're in a historically precedented moment, the idea of an attempted silent takeover of the West, fast & slow options for red state development, malice vs incompetence, amount of immigration between the U.S. and Canada, consequences & origins of intersectionality, competence of a blue state, wokery as a religion, what we should do instead of a divorce, fighting for a more constitutionally centered society, a civic revival, the passing of peak woke, and much more. New Discourses JRS EP73 - James Lindsay on Cynical Theories "National Divorce Is National Suicide," by James Lindsay Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, by John McWhorter Dr. James Lindsey is an American-born author, mathematician, and political commentator. He has written six books spanning a range of subjects including religion, the philosophy of science and postmodern theory. He is the co-founder of New Discourses and is motivated to rationally improve health “equity” without throwing out the baby with all this critical bathwater.

Helen Pluckrose is a political and cultural writer and commentator, addressing current affairs from a liberal humanist perspective. Her particular focus is current Critical Social Justice (woke) scholarship and activism. Helen took part in the Grievance Studies Affair (along with Peter Bogossian and James Lindsay) which submitted shoddy, ridiculous and ideologically biased papers to academic journals known for publishing Critical Social Justice scholarship. In 2020, she co-authored Cynical Theories with James Lindsay, which traced the evolution of postmodern thought into Critical Social Justice scholarship. In that same year, she co-founded Counterweight, an organization for helping individuals push back at authoritarian Critical Social Justice policies and training programs at their place of work, university or child's school. Helen continues to work with individuals and organizations to resist ideological capture. Helen really just wants you to value evidence-based epistemology and consistently liberal principles.

This week we talk culture, ideological politics, philosophy, and law with the celebrated author of Cynical Theories (Helen Pluckrose) and the Assistant Director at the Bi Foundation and editor-in-chief of Queer Majority (Rio Veradonir).  Helen and Rio speak with Mike and Elizabeth about challenges to liberalism, past, present, and future. They also share their reasons to celebrate and be hopeful.  Podcast Notes: Queer Majority: https://www.queermajority.com/ Bi Foundation: https://bi.org/en/about Bailey, Allison (2014). The Unlevelled Knowing Field: An Engagement with Dotson's Third-Order Epistemic Oppression. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective. The Unlevel Knowing Field: An Engagement with Dotson's Third-Order Epistemic Oppression, Alison Bailey - Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (social-epistemology.com) Burke, Edmund (1790). Reflections on the Revolution in France. The Project Gutenberg eBook of Burke's Writings and Speeches, Volume the Third, by Edmund Burke. Dotson, Kristie (2011). Tracking Epistemic Violence: Tracking Practices of Silencing. Hypatia. Tracking Epistemic Violence, Tracking Practices of Silencing on JSTOR  Mills, Charles (2005). "Ideal Theory" as Ideology. Hypatia. Wiley.  "Ideal Theory" as Ideology on JSTOR Paine, Thomas (1791). The Rights of Man. Project Gutenberg. The Writings of Thomas Paine, Complete by Thomas Paine | Project Gutenberg Pluckrose, Helen & James Lindsay (2005). Cynical Theories. Pitchstone Publishing. Amazon.com: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity - and Why This Harms Everybody (Audible Audio Edition): Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, Pitchstone Publishing: Books Pluckrose, Helen (2023). The Perilous Pendulum Swing Threatening LGBT Rights. Queer Majority. The Perilous Pendulum Swing Threatening LGBT Rights — Queer Majority Stenner, Karen (2012). The Authoritarian Dynamic. Cambridge University Press. Authoritarian Dynamic (05) by Stenner, Karen [Paperback (2005)]: Stener: Amazon.com: Books

James Lindsay was first with us a few months ago after his great speech on Woke in the European Parliament. He returns to Hearts of Oak to unpack a recent thread of his on X, titled 'How totalitarian cults control people through shame'.  We often find that presenting information and facts often fails to sway those trapped in totalitarian ideologies (like Woke, Covid or gender queer).  People do not like to admit they were wrong and certainly do not like others knowing they believed shameful things.  The battle we face regards social identity, not error. Belonging and not belief.  Before it is possible to get people out of such a cult mentality, they must realise they have permission to believe against cult doctrine.  Join us as James breaks all of this down in his own imitable and profound style.  Discussion based on https://x.com/ConceptualJames/status/1731784407688544285?s=20 James Lindsay is a professional troublemaker, mathematician, author, internationally recognized speaker and the founder and president of New Discourses. James is a leading expert on Critical Race Theory and is best known for his relentless criticism of "Woke" ideology, the now-famous Grievance Studies Affair, and his bestselling books including Race Marxism and Cynical Theories, which has been translated into over a dozen languages. In addition to writing and speaking, he is the voice of the New Discourses Podcast and has been a guest on prominent media outlets including The Joe Rogan Experience, Glenn Beck, Fox News, and NPR. Connect with James... X:                    https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames GETTR:           https://gettr.com/user/conceptualjames Amazon:         https://www.amazon.co.uk/James-Lindsay/e/B009BBX7BI/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk Connect with New Discourses... Website: https://newdiscourses.com/ X: https://twitter.com/NewDiscourses Interview recorded 5.12.23 Connect with Hearts of Oak... WEBSITE            https://heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS        https://heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA  https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Support Hearts of Oak by purchasing one of our fancy T-Shirts.... https://heartsofoak.org/shop/   *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin and Twitter https://twitter.com/TheBoschFawstin?s=20 

In Principle of Charity on the Couch, Lloyd has an unfiltered conversation with the guests, throws them curveballs, and gets into the personal side of Principle of Charity.Guests Tigress Osborn (she/her) is a fat rights advocate and Executive Director of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA), the world's oldest documented organization working towards Equality at Every Size. She is a co-founding leader of the Campaign for Size Freedom, which supports passing legislation to outlaw size discrimination. Tigress is a two-time women's college graduate with degrees in Africana Studies (Smith) and English (Mills). She is an intersectional feminist teacher and writer whose professional background as a youth empowerment leader and DEI educator has informed her fat liberation activism since 2008. She has been featured in USA Today, Newsweek, and the cover of the Smith College Alumnae Quarterly; heard on BBC AntiSocial, Burnt Toast, and NPR; and seen on ABC News, NewsNation and Free Speech TV's Feminism Today. Helen Pluckrose is a liberal humanist and political and cultural writer and commentator. Her writing has focused on the evolution of postmodern thought into contemporary Critical Social Justice activism which she regards as counterproductive to the goal of genuine social justice. Helen is best known for participation in the Grievance Studies Affair, co-authoring Cynical Theories and the foundation of the organisation Counterweight to support workers at risk of cancellation for not supporting Critical Social Justice theories. She mostly just wants people to value evidence-based knowledge and consistently liberal ethics. Your hosts are Lloyd Vogelman and Emile Sherman. This podcast is proud to partner with The Ethics Centre.Find Lloyd @LloydVogelman on Linked inFind Emile @EmileSherman on Linked In and Twitter.This Podcast is Produced by Jonah Primo, Bronwen Reid and Danielle HarveyFind Jonah at jonahprimo.com or @JonahPrimo on InstagramFind Danielle at danielleharvey.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We live in a culture that is obsessed by weight. About a third of adult women in the US are on a diet at any given time, and a fifth of men. Those who aren't dieting are thinking about dieting, with well over half of all adults actively wanting to lose weight, with men only slightly trailing women. To feed the obsession on weight, or to help people manage their weight, depending on the way one looks at things, there is a global weight loss and management industry that is expected to surpass US$405 billion by 2030. So what is going on here? Why is there a near pervasive belief that it's good to be thin and bad to be fat. In this episode we explore some of the reasons why fat has come to signify so much, looking at issues like health, shame, self-discipline, beauty and more. Guests Tigress Osborn (she/her) is a fat rights advocate and Executive Director of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA), the world's oldest documented organization working towards Equality at Every Size. She is a co-founding leader of the Campaign for Size Freedom, which supports passing legislation to outlaw size discrimination. Tigress is a two-time women's college graduate with degrees in Africana Studies (Smith) and English (Mills). She is an intersectional feminist teacher and writer whose professional background as a youth empowerment leader and DEI educator has informed her fat liberation activism since 2008. She has been featured in USA Today, Newsweek, and the cover of the Smith College Alumnae Quarterly; heard on BBC AntiSocial, Burnt Toast, and NPR; and seen on ABC News, NewsNation and Free Speech TV's Feminism Today. Helen Pluckrose is a liberal humanist and political and cultural writer and commentator. Her writing has focused on the evolution of postmodern thought into contemporary Critical Social Justice activism which she regards as counterproductive to the goal of genuine social justice. Helen is best known for participation in the Grievance Studies Affair, co-authoring Cynical Theories and the foundation of the organisation Counterweight to support workers at risk of cancellation for not supporting Critical Social Justice theories. She mostly just wants people to value evidence-based knowledge and consistently liberal ethics. Your hosts are Lloyd Vogelman and Emile Sherman. This podcast is proud to partner with The Ethics Centre.Find Lloyd @LloydVogelman on Linked inFind Emile @EmileSherman on Linked In and Twitter.This Podcast is Produced by Jonah Primo, Bronwen Reid and Danielle HarveyFind Jonah at jonahprimo.com or @JonahPrimo on InstagramFind Danielle at danielleharvey.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

James Lindsay is a bestselling author, mathematician, and a leading expert on the ensuing culture war. He is the founder of “New Discourses,” a website and podcast analyzing the theory behind, effects of, and solutions to "Woke Marxism".James speaks widely on language, education, and Social Justice ideology. In May, he spoke to the European Union Parliament about this evolved form of Marxism in Western culture.James' books include “Cynical Theories,” which he wrote with Helen Pluckrose, “How to Have Impossible Conversations,” which he wrote with yours truly, "Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis", and also his most recent book, “The Marxification of Education: Paulo Freire's Critical Marxism and the Theft of Education.”Watch this episode on YouTube.

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This episode we are excited to welcome James Lindsay, a bestselling author who has spoken and written extensively against the woke onslaught.    His recent speech in the European Parliament looking at the Neo-Marxist Cultural Revolution that is engulfing us all has really gone viral.  In this interview James looks at the Marxist thread that runs through Critical Race Theory and Queer Theory and we end by looking at his latest book "The Marxification of Education". James Lindsay is a professional troublemaker, mathematician, author, internationally recognized speaker and the founder and president of New Discourses.  James is a leading expert on Critical Race Theory and is best known for his relentless criticism of "Woke" ideology, the now-famous Grievance Studies Affair, and his bestselling books including Race Marxism and Cynical Theories, which has been translated into over a dozen languages.  In addition to writing and speaking, he is the voice of the New Discourses Podcast and has been a guest on prominent media outlets including The Joe Rogan Experience, Glenn Beck, Fox News, and NPR. Connect with James... GETTR:                       https://gettr.com/user/conceptualjames Twitter:                       https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames Gab:                            https://gab.com/ConceptualJames Truth:                          https://truthsocial.com/@conceptualjames Facebook:                  https://www.facebook.com/ConceptualJames/ Minds:                        https://www.minds.com/conceptualjames/ Amazon:                     https://www.amazon.co.uk/James-Lindsay/e/B009BBX7BI/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk Connect with New Discourses... Website:                     https://newdiscourses.com/ Twitter:                       https://twitter.com/NewDiscourses Facebook:                  https://facebook.com/newdiscourses YouTube:                    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9K5PLkj0N_b9JTPdSRwPkg Podcast:                     https://open.spotify.com/show/0HfzDaXI5L4LnJQStFWgZp Interview recorded 2.6.23 Audio Podcast version available on Podbean and all major podcast directories...  ⁣https://heartsofoak.podbean.com/ Transcript available on our Substack... https://heartsofoak.substack.com/ To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more...  https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please subscribe, like and share! Transcript (Hearts of Oak) Hello, Hearts of Oak, and welcome to another interview coming up in a moment with James Lindsay. Of course, the founder and president of New Discourses, and I was delighted to get him on after seeing him at a number of conferences over stateside. And it was his recent speech in the European Parliament, which really intrigued me. I know that has really gone viral. And I think the title was the Neo-Marxist Cultural Revolution Engulfing the West, now known as WOKE. What a title, what a topic to bring to the European Parliament. So he discusses the kind of response on that and how a lot of the battle lines that we are on, the Critical Race Theory and also the Queer Theory, how those fit under that socialist Marxist umbrella. He unpacks that and then we end up on education. He's just written a book, the end of last year, on the Marxification of education. We have no time to get into the topic, but I just wanted to get his thoughts on why he'd put pen to paper on a book specifically focused on education. So much packed in. I, know you'll have followed James for a long time. I know you'll enjoy listening to his thoughts on speaking in the European Parliament on such a topic and unpacking some of those other issues.  And hello Hearts of Oak. Today it is wonderful to have a best-selling author with us of many titles. We'll refer to some of them, The Marxification of Education and Race Marxism, The Truth About Critical Race Theory, amongst many others. An internationally recognized speaker, the privilege of hearing him first at the American Freedom Alliance conference back in June last year, and the founder and president of New Discourses, and that is James Lindsay. James, thank you so much for your time today. (James Lindsay) Hey, I'm glad to be here. Thank you. It's great to have you and your handle there @ConceptualJames on Twitter, Gab, Truth, GETTR, and newdiscourses.com is the website. People can find everything there. Before we start, James, could I just ask you to take a moment and introduce yourself before we get down to the issue? That's actually a hard thing to do. I'm a very kind of peculiar character, I think, and kind of the whole thing. But the long and short of it is that my academic training was in mathematics. I received a PhD in mathematics, or completed one, I suppose. They didn't give it to me. They don't give those away. But I earned a PhD in mathematics in 2010. I immediately left academia after finishing my doctorate. I became disillusioned with the course that it seemed to be on at the time. Then I just worked for myself at a small private enterprise for a number of years. To be academically engaged, I got involved with fighting with people online basically. This led to discovering the woke movement quite early on. This led to my participation in what was called the grievance studies affair, which I'm fairly well known for, which is where we wrote a large number of at fake academic articles for feminist journals in 2017 and 18 for whatever it's worth there's a new film that just came out telling the backstory with all of that a man named Michael Nayna put that out and it's called The Reformers, so you can find that on his substack, which I think it's michaelnayna.substack.com, The Reformers is the name of the film. John Cleese apparently saw it the other day and loved it, so that's a pretty ringing endorsement. From there, I went on to write, actually, Cynical Theories next, which is a book that did extremely well at getting some of this information into people's hands. It's actually hit somewhere around a quarter million sales, so a lot of people had a chance to encounter these ideas, which is the ultimate goal. And then I built New Discourses from there and I spent all my time researching, studying. Basically the woke movement and all of its kind of intellectual, intellectual is a generous word for them, antecedents and forebears. So I created New Discourses with the goal, it says all fancy on my website, shining the light of objective truth into subjective darkness. But the fact, that was my business partner's idea, honestly, the goal was I want to study woke and understand woke and expose woke and everything that's tied to it as fast as I can create and publish materials. And so that's what it's for. So it hosts mostly three different podcasts that I have in-house as well as articles that I write, videos that I do, and you can find links to the books that I've written, which which we tend to publish in-house because publishers are so slow and this is moving so fast. So anyway, that's me. I don't know how many books I've technically written now because some of them are blurry and they're, you know, things I've done with other people and some of them have been translated into a large number of languages. Those are the things that people care about. A lot of people know me because I've been on Joe Rogan's podcast three times also, which gets you kind of in the public eye a little bit. Okay, well, it's that criticism of woke ideology that I saw two months ago. You were in the European Parliament. You delivered a short address at a conference there, Woke a Culture War Against Europe. How did that come about and kind of how was that received? Well, they just reached out to me. Apparently the group there, which is a European-wide political party called Identity and Democracy or Identity Democracy Foundation, something like this. I don't quite know the organizational structure of these things. They invited me because they put together a three conference series to be held there at the European Parliament in Brussels and asked, they thought that I would be a perfect voice for the inaugural of the three, the first of the three. And so they invited me to come to Brussels and speak at the parliament. And so I gratefully accepted and went over and somehow or rather luckily delivered what I believe is given the fact of the significance of the room that I think I delivered my best public address I've ever delivered, which worked out pretty good because I could have bombed that sucker. And it was very good and very succinct. Part of it was that I realized the night before talking to another audience that there's a language barrier that kind of cuts across my humour, so I had to be very plain spoken. Maybe I should take notes on that and deliver more plain spoken addresses in the future. But it was received extremely well. Now, of course, the room was largely composed of MEPs that are of that party, so you would expect them to be interested in these ideas. It was also, there was a group there, the other speaker was Frank Ferretti, and a fairly well-known guy. And so his organization had a contingent there. And other than that, it was actually kind of timed to correspond with a youth conference for the ID Foundation. And so it was primarily a lot of people in their twenties, political interns and people interested in political party, young people. So most of the people were in their twenties, they were younger. And of course, their energy is really good, really, really a positive reception there. It came out online and they got a little bit of attention. And then for whatever reason, I don't know why a month later it went viral and it has just blown up everywhere. And the reception online has been extraordinarily positive. I'm sure that there are people who are very unhappy that that happened, but I haven't heard much from them.  Well that group, the ID group, is a fantastic group, probably the best bulwark against what is happening in Europe, and I've watched them closely through all my involvement of politics over the many years. But could I ask you, what was it like going into the, I guess, the ruling chamber in Europe and helping them understand the danger of socialism, which many of them call themselves socialists. They really do believe the state knows better than the individual. What was like kind of going into that? Obviously the ID group are on side, but as a chamber, as a parliament, they're very much against anything that will shine the light on the evils of socialism. So what was that like, kind of explain to them the dangers of socialism?  Well I mean it was surprisingly, again surprisingly positive, I thought it might be quite hostile. I thought there might be at least some people who would come by, you know, interested to see what people against their view might say. But I don't get the impression, or at least anybody who did stayed very professional and very polite. It was a very I mean, I don't want to say it's a very bureaucratic building because I don't know that I got that impression. But it's a very, very professional environment. So that wasn't, it wasn't like where I spoke at North-western University a month ago and got heckled and yelled at and protested the whole time or anything like that. The building itself was more interesting than my experience inside of it, I don't know if you visited Brussels and seen this but so walking around there's a... Brussels is, I'm sorry any Belgians watching is not the most beautiful city Down in the older part of the city the older the where the castles and things are that part is quite nice but over by the Parliament is, it's just kind of plain European city. It's not particularly beautiful. So but there's a little park there that's okay. And I found it striking that right outside the backside of the European Parliament building, there's a small grassy area with a number, maybe a dozen, maybe two dozen, somewhere in between statues in the grass. And what they are, when you look at them at first, you think, what are these? Are these aliens or something very peculiar? And you look closer, but no, they're ostriches with their heads buried in the ground, all of them. So it looks like a three-legged thing, but it's not. It's an ostrich with its head buried in the sand and there are you know dozens of these and I thought that's a weird installation to have, you know, on on site then you come around to the front to go into the to the actual Parliament building which you can't do without passes and a guide and all these things you can't just go in, but there's this statue right by the door that I found very striking and it's of this kind of very angry almost Soviet looking woman holding up a very sharp, angular, I'm trying to dig into the semiotics here like aggressive European and, you know, Euro-e. And she's standing triumphantly over a man that she seems to have conquered, who looks quite dejected and broken and so, you know, there's there's this weird vibe about the place, plus it's this weird building of steel and glass and an otherwise kind of fairly quaint European city, that just this kind of this glass. It's not the scary circular one that's in Spain or wherever that is. It's but this is, you know, intimidating steel and glass structure, that is just so out of character for the rest of the city. But as far as being inside the building, we went afterwards, after it was all people that were on site. And then after the talk, there was a little reception out in the hallway. And that was all, nobody bothered us. And then we went upstairs to do some interviews. And there was at the interview area with all the cameras, the media area, with the good lighting and all of that, There was another group, and I don't know who exactly they were, Renew Europe or something like this, I think is what it said, and they had a European Union flag with the stars. But instead of it being solid blue, that kind of deep blue that they use, it was rainbow. I think the stars might have not been in a circle, but might have been in a heart or something silly. So I asked them, and so obviously these people are not my people, so I asked them, I said, I love your flag, can I borrow it for a picture? And they were quite accommodating and they had a friendly chat with me and they don't know my views, but they were polite and professional as one would expect in a building of that sort. So I didn't find it's, I find more hostility going into American government buildings from Democrats here in the US than I experienced in the EU. But that might've just been stroke of luck or something like that. Just before I move to the issues, how do you see it? Because as an American, there is a culture where there is a battle happening, and it is one side against the other. When you look at Europe, it's much more one-sided than it is in the US. In the US, we look across the water and see the battle amongst the side of truth as being positive, strong, having arguments and holding the line, where in Europe, even the good countries have been succumbed into that EU of hating themselves and of rewriting history and all of that. How do you see that as an American? Well, I'll point out first, because I do agree with you generally, not the Flemish, the Flemish do not have that attitude. For certain and I found that I was spending quite a bit of time with it with Flemish men and women and some of the Italians do not have that attitude and they were very nice to spend time with, even a few Germans would they're very German, you know, everything must be according to the protocol, you know, very, I love Germans, but no, the fact is, what I see in Europe is that Europe is far more tipped to socialism, far more tipped to kind of this overarching, less accountable or even unaccountable governance. This bureaucracy that's beyond the reach of the people, and it knows better, and therefore, you know, it's going to deal with the people for them than we see here in America. But it's not nearly as woke and that was actually kind of the crux of this conference that they wanted to put together is yes, yes, we know we're very socialist and we know we're very far down that road, but whatever's happening in the Anglosphere, so the UK is actually heavily included in this, it's a very different animal than continental Europe, is very crazy. It's properly almost insane. There was no confusion that I ran into among virtually anybody, about what a man and a woman for example, and in the European context. But the idea that the taxpayer money would just be wasted on everything that they want to do is, you know, just kind of taken for granted. It's just something they say, of course, this is how things work. Of course, the taxes will be crazy. Of course, we'll waste money on flying a stupid American over here and giving him lots of beer or something like this, you know, to show him a good time in Belgium. So it's a very different attitude. Europe is very dangerously tipped toward favourability toward socialism, but it's still repelling, and that was really again the crux of the conference, it's still repelling the very almost antinomian, insane, woke kind of, whether it's race, race politics is actually the most relevant. The sex and gender politics, people are a little bit naturally repellent to that still, but I don't think that that can last if they open the doors. So my goal was to warn Europe, like, yeah, you guys are already pretty well screwed up with socialism and maybe, you know, talking to the Flemish, maybe you can turn some of this around or do something with it in the future, but you do not know your danger if you think that you can kind of just not be proactive in keeping the woke ideology out. Yeah. You end, I don't know if it was actually the end or in the middle, telling them that according to Marx, socialism was not economic but religious in essence. Do you want to just kind of unpack that and is that why we are having this difficulty because it is religious in nature? Well Marx made it, he tried to make it look very much like it was economic. But if you read his earlier works, which sort of set the foundation and you catch the flavour of it throughout his as later works, Marx was very invested in this idea of understanding the world and man at a fundamental level. What is man? Who is man? And to answer these deep fundamental questions, and what does it require of man to do this? And so I actually think that he's more of a theologian in a kind of an anti-theology way. He's casting down God and replacing God with not man, but man enlightened to the secret truth of reality, which is that man is a social animal, a perfectly social being that lives not for himself but for the species when he's properly awakened to who he is. My contention is that if you take that as a fundamental substrate so that then it separates the world into the people who have access to power and the people who do not have access to power, then that they're intrinsically in conflict so that the underclass has to to awaken to its nature's true historical agents of change and seize the means of production, that the means of production are, in a sense, fungible. You can change them out. But the idea is that what are you producing? And everybody thinks it's, oh, it's economics. You're producing in the factory with goods and services. You're producing in the field with food and agricultural goods, and that's the hammer and the sickle, obviously. But no, you're producing man. You're producing man as who he's meant to be, which that's a fundamentally theological project, not a fundamentally economic project. And Marx believed that economic conditions to determine who man is. But if you were to say, well, it doesn't work, obviously in Britain and obviously in the United States and in Canada, economic conditions were not successful at agitating people into the historical class consciousness as change agents of history. But if you say that race or sex or gender or sexuality or whatever, those are actually the determinants. When you have material comfort. When you have, as some of the Marxists in the 20th century put it, an advanced capitalism that delivers the goods and allows people to build a good life, you are not going to get them on economic conditions. Economic conditions are not determinant of who they are. They are, but on a deeper level that they don't perceive. This is the thesis of Marcuse's one-dimensional man. You've been made one-dimensional. You can't even perceive the fact that economic conditions are relevant to your life. So instead, you have to come where it matters, which is in personal identity. If you're comfortable, where do you turn? You turn to yourself and you think about your identity and who you are in the world. And so identity politics became the weapon that allowed to subdue the West. So if you take out economic conditions as the producer of man, where the means of production have to be seized and you put in cultural issues around race or what it means to be a certain sexuality or what it means to be man or woman in terms of sex itself and gender, then you can just kind of get these other dimensions, whether it's critical race theory or queer theory or feminism as a kind of a Marxist flavour of feminism or within what they call critical pedagogy in education. It's who gets to be a knower and who doesn't. So being considered knowledgeable becomes a form of social property that has to be challenged by the people who are excluded from it by the existing knowing system. Listen to the way the woke talk. It's all about other ways of knowing and knowing systems and all of this. That's where this comes from. But it's the same fundamental architecture. It's, you have this theology of man, or maybe I think the technical word is an Anthroposophist, I can't even say it, anthrosophist, something. Anthro for man, sophi for, you know, sophistry. Sophistry of mankind. Somebody else can say it for me. I can write it. Type it out on the screen for you, but it's technically that, but you have this theology that has at its heart the idea that man is producing himself by some mechanism, and that mechanism can be seized by the underclass of its dynamic and taken over to transform what man and society is. And every one of their theories just, once you understand it that way, every one of their theories just falls out. So you can start making very keen guesses on what's going to happen as this progresses and develops. Here's one, I think I mentioned this in the EU, and I think it's very pertinent for the both European but also the UK context. So if you'll forgive me, just for simplicity, I'm going to consider the UK part of Europe. I know, we can't do that, but I don't want to have to say UK and Europe over and over again. So the broadly European, maybe I'll use broadly European context, that side of the Atlantic context, what you actually have, you guys live in, there is actually a text you can read. If you want to figure out what's happening in Europe, you read Douglas Murray's, The Strange Death of Europe. There is a single text, it's not that long, that you can read to fully understand whose Europe you live in, and it's John Paul Sartre's Europe. He wrote the foreword to Franz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth, so you're not going to go find one of Sartre's books. You're going to go get Wretched of the Earth, which is by Franz Fanon, who was a post-colonialist in the 50s and 60s in France. You're going to go get his book. And then he is from, I always get it wrong, Martinique. He's from Martinique. And so he was in this kind of colonized condition, but also a French psycho analyst. And so that forward though has a very important part. The book is all about, the colonial condition. So who's a native and who's a settler. And now you have that same dynamic, that same mentality, the same exact structure of how it creates who you are as a person. And Fanon argues that violence is the only way to overcome the colonized condition. And Sartre writes in the foreword to this that Europe, he has a letter to Europe, and he's like, Europe, you better listen. The payment for colonization is coming. And this is in the 60s. What you need to do, early 60s, you need to do is you need to decide, are they gonna get it by violence or are you going to propitiate yourself and give it away and hope that the violence doesn't come? And he urges Europe to start giving away their society to their former colonies. When they come and make a claim on your society, give it to them. Maybe they won't be violent. Maybe they'll spare you. So in the kind of very Trumpian, I see a Trump hat behind you, so very Trumpian kind of slang language of the 2020s, go ahead Europe and cuck yourself before the people who you previously colonized, give your societies away to them or else there'll be blood, is the message. And that is literally the message that Europe adopted. So while you haven't in Europe broadly construed, although the UK has taken up with quite a bit of woke. Scotland is, in Ireland or Scotland especially, is particularly bad. You guys have taken up quite a lot of this, but the element of the broad woke pantheon of powered gods or whatever that really strikes hardest is this post-colonial status, which has allowed you or made it so that not only have you guys opened your borders utterly, but that the entire social welfare state that you guys have built up around your socialist sensibilities pours into this yawning black hole of need. And the reason is discoverable in a French existentialist Marxists wailing about a post-colonialist saying that there must be blood to pay for colonization, which is a very obviously you're not allowed to even say these things, but a very one-sided understanding of, the impacts of colonialism. Yes, bad, but also you're not even allowed to mention that yes, good, too. It was a mixed bag brought through brutality and much injustice for certain, but at the same time time. Ethiopia famously is the least or the only completely uncolonized, if I remember right, country in that area of Africa. And they're also the ones that have been struggling the most and the most backwards in many regards for so long. They were the Somalia and Ethiopia where when I grew up as a kid, it was, you know, the starving kids in Ethiopia, eat your peas because the starving kids in Ethiopia don't have any, you know, they were the, they the poster child of backwards and broken. Maybe that was a meme that's not true, I don't know, anyway, Europe has that on its plate, and I think that's comprehensible. I actually think the strange death of Europe is utterly comprehensible out of the foreword that, Sartre wrote. If you read any of Sartre, who the hell wants to live in his world? What a nightmare. Well, you do, and what a nightmare. Tell us, because you mentioned colonialism, that's one of the battle lines, the critical race theory is one of the battle lines, you talked about that and how that fits under socialism. I know it was last year you published Race Marxism, the truth about critical race theory and people can get that. The links will be in the description for them to get hold of that and to go deeper into it. But how does critical race theory fit under the umbrella of socialism or Marxism? Well, it's a redistribution of cultural capital that ties into actually redistributing material capital. So the idea is that there's this form of cultural property that white people erected for themselves during the colonial eras, particularly to justify colonialism and to justify slavery in the 17th century, primarily 16th and 17th centuries, going some into the 18th century. And falling apart in the 19th century. So this idea of whiteness as a cult form of cultural property that generates white supremacy and racial superiority and even racial identification was created by white people to enshrine their own power and to impose, racial identity and inferiority, social and cultural and even economic inferiority on others. So-called people of colour, but particularly blacks and critical race theory builds out completely from this. And the goal then is to seize the means of cultural production around the ideas of what it means to be a member of a certain race. And it's actually a very interesting theory because it's still, unlike some of these other woke theories which seem just off in the air, it's got one foot very firmly still rooted in material reality. It's in a sense a lot more, not explicitly Marxist, but much more critical and materialist. And if you read their early writings, in fact, if you read virtually all of their writings through the 1990s, and I expect, so 70s through the 90s, and I expect we're gonna see another rash of this writing coming now, given what's happening in the United States Supreme Court. It's a very American theory, by the way. It doesn't really fit in other contexts, and Europeans have noticed, as have Brits. Like, we didn't do this, what are you talking about? But the fact is what it's really centered around is seizing the means of affirmative action, is what it's ultimately about. And I don't say that to be cheeky. If you read their books, affirmative action is brought up as a core and key issue hundreds of times. It's not mentioned kind of tangentially here or there, it is a central issue that comes up again and again. And their goal is that they're seeing affirmative action gaining public disfavour through the, say, the 80s. They see, you know, the Supreme Court starting to say, well, maybe it needs a time limit. And they explicitly say, no, it doesn't need a time limit. Not only do we need to maintain it, we need to expand it. It needs to be bigger and more and more and more. So it's like it's very materialistic, seize the means of opportunity redistribution, I guess, in material resources. This is where the reparations conversations come in. And so it takes the entire architecture of literally of Marxism, infuses it with the later critical theory, and then recentres it in race. And in fact, you can find authors like Gloria Ladson Billings is a famous critical race theorist. In the 90s, she writes a paper called Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education. And what she says is in that paper, and I can't quote it from memory anymore, I used to do it a lot, but she says that, the point of critical race theory is to make race the central variable for understanding all inequality. So is where a classical Marxist would say that access to capital is the central concern that determines all inequality, and that's the production of man for critical race theorists, is that race actually supersedes that. And there's a wonderful book explaining all this that I thought was extremely clarifying and elucidating. It's one of the better books that I've read. It's by a former philosopher of race. I've been told I'm not allowed to call him a critical race theorist, technically. His name's Charles Mills, very famous guy. He wrote a book called The Racial Contract, which takes Rousseau's social contract and turns it into a racial phenomenon. But he also wrote a book called From Class to Race, where he explains how he moved from being a classical Marxist to a critical race philosopher. And he argues that he became convinced that at least in the American context, when we understand what Marx was really saying, what he really meant by ideology, what he really meant by social structures, superstructure, infrastructure, the base, and how they interact to create a structure of society, that race is by far the more relevant variable in American society, in American history. So he moves from, it's a book about his own philosophical journey, From Class to Race. And it's the title of the book, From Class to Race, by Charles Mills. It's a staggeringly interesting book. The first chapter was so eye-opening to understand Marx. It's one of the top three most important things I've read to understand Marx. And he's got a very heterodox view, according to Marxist standards. So people criticize my view of Marx, as I've largely derived it from Charles Mills, who's a Marxist, just a fairly heterodox one. He's late Charles Mills to be clear. I don't know if I mentioned he died a few years ago. But that's, in a nutshell, what critical race theory is. Rather than capital being the special form of private property that basically appropriates every deterministic thing in society, including who you are as a person, race becomes, whiteness in fact, becomes the central piece of private property. This is based off of a paper explicitly called Whiteness as Property, written by Cheryl Harris, a famous critical race theorist, in 1993. I think, they're always in really big ones, I think that one's Harvard Law Review. It might be Cornell Law Review. I have to always kind of look up and check where it was published, but it's one of these very big universities law review. And it's a very, it's like 93 pages. It's a very long article arguing that whiteness functions in parallel to the way that Marx lays out capital as a form of bourgeois private property. She even uses the phrase bourgeois property a few times in the paper, that the white people have set themselves up as a racial bourgeoisie and everything just kind of follows from there. And so critical race theory becomes this, that's why I titled the book Race Marxism, as a matter of fact, this Marxist theory of race. It latches onto that post-colonial, just for you broadly UK, European context folks, it latches onto that because there are often racial components to colonialism. I mean, if you've colonized Africa, most of the people you've colonized happen to be black. If you've colonized Asia, most of the people you've colonized happen to be Asian. So you can understand why they would attach these arguments about whiteness and race back through, and that's kind of the back door there in the UK-European context, is that they're using the colonial context and then saying, well, the real reason for all this was racial, where it's not, it's straight up, it's directly, openly, unabashedly, historically, imperial. It's the British empire was proudly an empire. The Spanish empire was proudly an empire. You know, their goal up until World War II, I think every European country threw on its hat to try to conquer the world of its empire. And then finally we realized with nuclear weapons and machine guns and jet airplanes and things like that, carpet bombing, maybe that's not good anymore. Maybe military colonization is not a functional approach for a humanity that wants to survive, into the 21st century. Well, can I, then another battlefront, and you raised this so that you didn't really go into it in the speech, is queer theory. And I think that's where we have more of a battleground in Europe. Critical race theory seems to be less an issue, certainly in our education system, where it is queer theory, and of course, we're celebrating the holy month of pride this month. But tell us, how does that- How does that-  The power be upon us. And how does that fit under socialism queer theory? Yeah, well, it's the same model. So if we understand this concept that there's economic conditions blah blah blah and you get all of Marxism that falls out from the Marxist kind of axioms, and then you say well if we consider economic production to be fungible for racial production as a cultural property, then you get critical race theory Well, if we consider both of those again to be fungible and we pull out that and we say well there's a certain class in society that have designated themselves by virtue of their larger numbers by virtue of having been successful and put themselves in positions of power, but they've declared themselves normal. And other people outside of that are not normal, or they're abnormal, or they're aberrant, or they're perverts, or they're queer, queer against normal, and the kind of even old meaning of the word, then queer theory falls out in your lap. It's just that simple. But this is a very scary phenomenon, whereas critical race theory at its very bottom has, and Marxism both at their very bottom, have a blatant visible grift involved. We're going to seize the means of production. We're going to establish a permanent and stronger and increasing, accelerating affirmative action regime. These are very blatant grifts. We're going to take resources and power for ourselves as an identifiable group of people or whatever. With the queer theory, it's a very different thing. They're looking at the cultural production, it is largely sex, gender, and sexuality, but it can apply to anything. Fat studies emerged mostly in the UK, as it turns out. So did the study of ability, what's called the social model of disability, is from a a man named Michael Oliver, who was a Brit. I don't remember where, if he was London or where, but they actually use the same underlying architecture and engine as queer theory. So now instead of it being about sex or gender or sexuality, it's about your body weight, your health status, your ability status as a very awkward politically correct term we use to not say handicapped or whatever. Well, in America, is fatness now a designated characteristic in New York? I don't know how that's going to work, but yeah.  Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I've been I noticed in December that I had some fatness going on. So I, believe, get this I started eating less and moving more and the fatness started to go away. It's incredible  Revolutionary  Yeah, I know you guys use fake measurements like kilos or stones or whatever that nobody knows what they are, I think I lost like I'll do it in stones. I think I lost 1.6 stone If I'm making up numbers correctly, whatever that works out to is 28 pounds. Maybe you could get repatriations for the time you were over with at all. I don't know could be  I hope so but the idea with queer theory is anything that kind of the broad consensus of society considers normal is, illegitimately determined so that certain people get to have power. So what they're trying to do is seize the means of production of of normalcy, what people consider within the boundaries of normal or normative or even healthy or good behaviour, presentation, being, society. And that's very dangerous because unlike the other ones, see, critical race theory has to at the end of the day maintain its grift, right? Marxism at the end of the day has to maintain its grift. Queer theory, the second is let's say that they get LGBT or just LGB, they get gay acceptance, gay marriage, gay equality, gay everything, full civil rights movement that succeeds. I actually think that that's separate, by the way, the civil rights movement was more of a broadly liberal phenomenon, and I think it was separate from this very radical phenomenon. And there's a much historical and theoretical reason to accept that I know what I'm talking about with that claim, but you get broad LGBT acceptance in society, full equality in society, etc., and that becomes a new norm. Immediately you have to attack the new norm, and they actually have names for this. They have words. Homo-normativity. You've heard of heteronormativity that has to be combated. Homo-normativity has to be combated, and homo-normativity means the the broad acceptance of homosexual people in society, that's a problem because it actually prevents them from being radicalizable. Anything that would cause somebody to become a stable functioning member of society within the boundaries of normal has to be attacked. So every inch of ground queer theory takes, it has to turn around and wage war on its previous success to take it even further. They have to constantly, they call it queering. They have to constantly say, well, if you actually look at the people who designated that they're normal, a lot of them are perverts and private. So are they really normal? Or are they just repressed and have to keep their perversion in the closet? And that's just like other people being in the closet and they blur out all these contexts. But it's a war against normalcy. It's a war against norms. It's a war against decency and expectations of decency. It's also a war against any boundaries. The boundaries, you could say that, maybe it's artificial, the boundaries between heterosexual versus homosexual. But at some point, we're not talking about artificial boundaries, the paedophilia, bestiality, these kinds of very perverse things. The boundaries between what in the slang terms get called vanilla and kink. There's some kind of boundary. They say that these things are all actually, there is no boundary. There's no meaningful boundary and their goal is to dissolve those. So what ultimately happens is, queer theory is like a universal solvent. It's an acid that will dissolve anything. And anything that you try to put as a container around it, it necessarily has to dissolve that too. They even have, I thought there was just one, I looked it up, There are many papers that have some variation of queering queer theory as their title in their queer literature, Because queer theory itself had become too normative. So they have to queer that they have to make it even weirder less normative, and so it's uh it's socialist though in the sense that it's trying to seize the means of production and redistribute shares of social acceptance and opportunity, according to whether or not you're considered normal. Phrases like bring your whole self to work are very queer. Like, no, do not bring it. Leave most of yourself at home, as a matter of fact, is actually what we call professionalism. And that they would say that that's restrictive of people who say want to wear fetish gear to the office, kind of like we have in our White House happening right now. Kind of very visibly what we have. There's military officials wearing literally pup fetish, we had this bizarre character in charge of our nuclear waste and other things who was stealing women's clothing from airports and he's been arrested now three times for this. And it turns out he's a member of this troop that's now controversially the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in Los Angeles that is doing the very antinomian religious provocation at Dodger Stadium that's all in the news. He's not a current member, he was a former member Sam Brinton is this character's name, you know, bald, shiny head, looks like an alien, has a moustache dressed in a fabulous gown he stole from some woman of colour immigrant who built it, that you know herself. Very bizarre, but queer theory is well, who's this? There's an old sketch on Saturday Night Live. I encourage people to look this up It's it's the character's name is sex ed. So it's sex ed Vincent. His name is Ed Vincent. He's a sex educator Everybody should look this up This is the perfect expression of queer theory and actually post-modernism where he's describing very bizarre fetishes as a joke, right? It's very funny and he's obviously very nerdy weird guy, but then it's his tagline is, is that weird? well who's to say, and he's teaching like a class, is that weird? and everybody says like who's to say, that's the ultimate idea of queer theories is that outside of the boundaries of normal? Well who gets to say that obviously people who set themselves up that way so we're gonna redistribute who has the power to determine what is and is not normal including drag queens in front of children and you know, provocative displays pride parades as a parade for for civil rights or even to celebrate the fact that for many years homosexuals were very oppressed in society, often viciously oppressed in society a pride parade that would just march and you know wave flags or whatever for a day, as it used to be would be one thing. This isn't what happens at all this thing is this crazy celebration that sprawls now across not just a month with a season. The entire public square turns into a rainbow for for upwards of 60 days and beyond. It's you know, there are fetishists running around enticing children and doing crazy things. It's really turned into something like a much grosser version of carnival, and it's, their fundamental view is well, is that out of bounds? Well, it's illegitimate if anybody but us decide, every individual should get to decide for themselves what's publicly out of bounds. So this is, literally like it to some very Jordan Peterson issues. It's the chaos monster right or the chaos dragon It's Tiamat being released on society that will ultimately tear it apart. Just to finish off, your latest book published in December was an education, The Marxification of Education, Paolo Ferrer's critical Marxism and the Theft of Education. We have no time to go into the topic at all, it is there, links are all there for the viewers and listeners, but could I just ask you as we finish, why you wanted to write a book specifically on education. Well I got sucked into it. I was gonna, I knew it was important and nobody was covering what's called Critical Pedagogy, the Critical Theory of Education. So I read a couple of books on it, got a little informed. I thought I would do a flyby, and just, you know, a reconnaissance flyby, give some people some pictures. And it turns out it was like trying to do a flyby of Jupiter, I just got sucked into the gravity and stuck. It's just a huge universe, and it's so complicated. But I wrote the book particularly, I call it, you know, The Theft of Education, because I kept encountering parents who were saying, they're telling me they're not doing this in our school, but I know they're doing it in our school, I experience it with my children. What's going on? And so I had read enough to understand the magic trick, how they've stolen education, what the mechanism is. And it actually is the same trick I've described. We don't have to go into the nitty gritties, but they've set up who gets to be constituted as a knower. Who does society recognize as a knowledgeable person versus somebody who's recognized as ignorant or outside of that. And they've created a Marxist seize the means of production program, where Paolo Ferrari did out of that. And then he created a mechanism in education where you use the academic material as an excuse to have political conversations. So that's how they do it. They don't technically teach critical race theory. They show a math problem and use it as an excuse to have a discussion about racial injustice and do this over and over and over again. Informed by critical race theory would be more accurate than teaching critical race theory. And so I wanted to pull back the veil on how that happens and what's really going on and that this is actually a cult brainwashing program. And the book has been very helpful to parents across at least the United States in that regard. It's being translated into Portuguese now, so we'll see what happens with that. Well, James, I appreciate you coming on. The issue of woke is, I think, the issue in whether society and cultures will survive or collapse, how you respond to them. So I appreciate you coming on and sharing your insights on those. Yeah, well, I'm very glad to talk to you, very glad to get to spread the word. I think the European context has an interesting opportunity. UK is a little bit harder. You've already taken in a lot. But Europe has actually a chance, the ID group being that we mentioned before, being a great bulwark to stand up to this particular, very toxic aspect that will, as you can see, and whether it's the UK or Australia or Canada or the United States, that will rip a society apart if you let it in. Yeah, we're seeing that happen. And you mentioned in Brussels, their issue is immigration. 30% Islamic.  That clash between separate ideas of what culture should be and what freedom should be is why I would never want to live in Brussels. So, sorry.  Yeah. Well, I'll tell you the truth just quickly that this whole, if we look at Marx as a theologian philosopher-ish kind of character, A lot of his model, he says he inverted it, but he derived it from Georg Hegel preceding him. And Hegel's belief, and Marx definitely adopted this part, was that history is this inexorable force, almost like a deity itself that has a trajectory and a purpose and a defined endpoint. And the key part is that it moves through conflict. And if you understand nothing else about everything we've just talked about, that the people that think this way, that have adopted this worldview, understand that they move history to a desired endpoint through generating conflict. You don't have to get into the granular details of how until later. You can understand many of these decisions. Why are you pulling in 30% of your population now is going to be a different religion with a different culture, and then you take tremendous care of them and inflame these tensions across the divide and cause these conflicts, because conflict moves history. In other words, truly their view, religiously speaking for Hegel explicitly, is that the conflict working itself out through history actually finishes or actualizes God. So God doesn't become God until the conflicts have all played out, so they have to generate the conflicts to create the finalized deity, at which point everything will be perfect at the so-called end of history with the people that live in it called the last man.  Yeah. Well, we'll finish, James. The viewers and listeners @ConceptualJames on GETTR, Gab, Truth, Minds, wherever your preferred social media platform is, you'll find James on it, and of course newdiscourses.com. So thank you so much once again for your time, James.  Yeah, thank you.

“This is the unraveling of civilization, if we allow for the full-scale corruption—political and ideological corruption—of our knowledge-producing sector,” says James Lindsay.Lindsay is the founder of the website New Discourses, author of “The Marxification of Education” and “Race Marxism,” and co-author of “Cynical Theories.”He's also one of the minds behind the “Grievance Studies Affair” or “Sokal-squared Hoax,” in which they managed to get a number of fake papers published in critical-theory-based journals. The story is detailed in Mike Nayna's new documentary “The Reformers.”We discuss the corruption of education and the evolution of Marxism to the new variants we see today.

What is postmodernism? Does the Biden Administration support Critical Race Theory? How might a recommitment to classical liberal principles help fight "Woke-ism"? James Lindsay joins the show to answer these questions and more and discuss his book (co-written with Helen Pluckrose), Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody.  About the "Grievance Studies Affair," here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

What is postmodernism? Does the Biden Administration support Critical Race Theory? How might a recommitment to classical liberal principles help fight "Woke-ism"? James Lindsay joins the show to answer these questions and more and discuss his book (co-written with Helen Pluckrose), Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody.  About the "Grievance Studies Affair," here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A huge thanks to Seth White for the awesome music! Thanks to Palmtoptiger17 for the beautiful logo: https://www.instagram.com/palmtoptiger17/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thewayfourth/?modal=admin_todo_tour YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTd3KlRte86eG9U40ncZ4XA?view_as=subscriber Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theway4th/  Kingdom Outpost: https://kingdomoutpost.org/ My Reading List Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21940220.J_G_Elliot My Reading List Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10h_yL0vO8-Ja_sxUJFclff11nwUONOG6/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=103262818858083924733&rtpof=true&sd=true Bradley Mason's CRT Series [Part 3]: https://thefrontporch.org/2020/07/the-christian-and-critical-race-theory-part-3-a-bridge-dr-derrick-bell/ Preston Sprinkle talks about dismissing CRT's methodology while recognizing the problems it legitimately points out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAalg-yhR_M "Unbelievable" podcast episode on CRT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbzPDoEgO_s "Cynical Theories" explores the problems with critical theory taken to its full, logical end: https://www.amazon.com/Cynical-Theories-Scholarship-Everything-Identity_and/dp/1634312023/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=cynical+theories&qid=1602772561&sr=8-2 Political Changes to the American Westminster Confession 1788: https://opc.org/documents/WCF_orig.html Response to SBC statement on CRT: https://www.baptiststandard.com/opinion/other-opinions/commentary-where-i-stand-on-the-statement-by-sbc-seminary-presidents/ Romans 13 Episode 1: https://thefourthway.transistor.fm/episodes/rebuttal-romans-13 Romans 13 Episode 2: https://thefourthway.transistor.fm/episodes/rebuttal-romans-13-part-2 Abstention Episode: https://thefourthway.transistor.fm/episodes/se2-abstention-from-political-idolatry ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Charlie welcomes James Lindsay, author of "Race Marxism" and "Cynical Theories" and founder of New Discourses, to the stage LIVE at TPUSA's Student Action Summit in Tampa Florida. Live in front of 5,000 students, James and Charlie walk through the constructs of CRT, "wokeness," and radical gender theory. James explains how social and emotional learning or SEL, is transforming public school education into a psychological reprogramming and manipulation regime designed to transform young Americans into cultural Marxist revolutionaries. Also, find out why James believes that radical queer theory is the most dangerous, insidious ideology pathogen being spread across the left in America today. Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In another conversation brought to you LIVE from Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit, Charlie sits down with new TPUSA Contributor Lauren Chen to discuss the 47 Republicans voting against their base and abandoning the idea of Traditional Marriage, the massive aftershock we've felt following the Supreme Court's reversal of  Roe v. Wade, and together, they discuss the next moves that Democrats in DC will make to hold on to power. They also tackle the absurd censorship debate surrounding the word “groomer” and how tech platforms are classifying what is an accurate descriptor of many on the New Left as an LGBTQ “slur.” Next, Charlie is joined by Dr. James Lindsay, who was just banned from Twitter for using the word, to talk about his new book “Race Marxism,” as well as his modern classic, “Cynical Theories.” They cover the concept of “Queer Theory,” the next Marxist movement, religion in politics, and so much more. Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/support See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Trigger warning: talking about death and dying. How do we approach dying and what to do for loved ones. Book discussion: Cynical Theories by Pluckrose and Lindsay.

A conversation with Dr. Lathania Butler & Dr. David HartmanDavid presently works in corporate training and development and also serves as an adjunct professor. His background is in the social and behavioral sciences and he has advanced degrees in sociology, counseling, and education. In his academic life he studied religion, race, identity, and philosophy of social science. Now that he's back in the corporate world, he bores his wife, Kara, with his academic musings in the absence of having students to bore.How to be Second, by Nathan Young and David Hartman howtobesecond.comLathania is a public policy expert turned data practitioner. She loves to nerd out on economic ideas and artificial intelligence strategies but is also deeply committed to promoting justice and truth in the world. She has followed Jesus for 18 years on winding paths and to miraculous places, and now regularly meets Him in playtime with her daughter and son who she shares with her husband, Davonte.@lathaniab on Twitter and Instagram.David French, How the Fight Over Critical Race Theory Became a Religious War frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/how-the-fight-over-critical-race?s=r Cynical Theories, by Pluckrose & Lindsay Christ and Culture, Richard Niebuhr You can find these books and more at:bookstore.vineyardcolumbus.org/reads/recommended/the-in-between-podcast

Andrés & Oskar samtalar om James Lindsays bok "Cynical Theories" samt uppmärksammar svenska exempel på 'wokeness' inom akademia och pressen.

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Sebastian talks to James Lindsay, author of "Cynical Theories" and "Race Marxism," about the origins of Cultural Marxism and Critical Race Theory, then talks about President Trump's upcoming social media platform "Truth Social" with its CEO Devin Nunes Support the show: https://www.sebgorka.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello and welcome to the Big Red for America Show! Happy New Year everybody! I hope you had a restful holiday. I'm sorry, a good season of severe illness and death. If you survived meeting with your families and are still alive to listen, welcome back! We are kicking off the new year with a great book review! This month we are reviewing James Lindsay's book Cynical Theories. It comments on the history of Critical Theory and how it works in our society today. -- FOR SOURCES, SUBSCRIBE TO OUR SUBSTACK WHERE YOU CAN FIND OUR OTHER   ARTICLES! https://bigredforamerica.substack.com/ LIKE WHAT YOU HEARD?   FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: https://linktr.ee/Bigredforamerica --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Quisha King Show is about faith, culture, and politics. This week we have the co-author of the book "Cynical Theories"; James Lindsay. We talk about Critical Race Theory, the public school system, Queer Theory, and their introduction to CRT through both atheism and religion.SUBSCRIBE:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeWsHT7KdkBuigie2TGoFIgFACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/IamQuishaKingOFFICIAL WEBSITE https://www.quishaking.com/#Massexodus Resources www.massexodusmovement.comBOOKING: quisha@kingconsultingco.com​www.quishaking.com#massexodus Shirts here:Show Some Support - https://actionup-america.creator-spring.com/listing/mass-exodus-movement-Social MediaYOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeWsHT7KdkBuigie2TGoFIgINSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/iamquishak/TWITTER https://twitter.com/ImQuishaKSupport the show (https://cash.app/$msquishak)

**We're currently on a brief vacation and will return in early 2022, but wanted to replay some of our favorite episodes and interviews from this past year** Hope you enjoy! In the final episode of our series exploring what Critical Race Theory (CRT) is, we speak with author, mathematician, and political commentator, Dr. James Lindsay. James has written six books spanning a range of subjects including religion, the philosophy of science and postmodern theory. He is the founder of New Discourses and currently promoting his new book "Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody." Dr. Lindsay offers a viewpoint and opinion on Critical Race Theory that differs from the previous two guests in this series. While many believe that CRT is a legal framework by which to view the racial disparity among minorities, Dr. Lindsay argues that this is a dangerous, and racist, theory that undermines the progress and the vision of the Civil Rights Movement. If you are interested in hearing a counter argument to CRT, Dr. Lindsay provides a well informed and well researched view that you are unlikely to hear anywhere else. To learn more about New Discourses, please visit: https://newdiscourses.comHere is an article from the Atlantic about the Sokal squared paper we referenced in the show: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/new-sokal-hoax/572212/Guest Bio:James Lindsay has a doctorate in math and background in physics. He is the author of five books and his essays have appeared in TIME, Scientific American, and The Philosophers' Magazine. He led the "grievance studies affair" probe and his forthcoming book with Helen Pluckrose, Cynical Theories, looks at the evolution of postmodern thought in scholarship and activism.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/faithpolitics)

A livestream with James Lindsay, author of Cynical Theories, founder of New Discourses, and frequent channel guest. In this conversation, we speak about the theology buried within Critical Theory, James' current work fighting against its encroachment into education (albeit, things might be more than a little fatal on that front), and his personal development from a bible study leader, to a fervent New Atheist, and toward a more tolerant and mature humanism. Links: https://newdiscourses.com King Crocoduck's "Nuking Social Constructionism": https://youtu.be/lLqmrYUIPCo CRT debate: https://youtu.be/0XKBpOUvW84 James on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/newdiscourses 20 Hours of Boyce Not Interrupting Lindsay: https://bit.ly/UninterruptingLindsay Support this channel: https://paypal.me/benjaminboyce --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/calmversations/message

Charlie plays the tape back from a truly epic and victorious night for America. Glenn Youngkin overcame a solidly blue state electorate to become governor-elect in the Common Wealth of Virginia. Meanwhile conservatives from Seattle and Texas to Long Island and New Jersey destroy solidly blue states voting advantages to gain seats, influence, and absolutely destroy the woke industrial complex. Charlie also highlights the story of Edwin Durr who spent $153 on his campaign and may defeat the NJ Senate President. Charlie then speaks with James Lindsay, author of Cynical Theories and one of the chief critics of CRT, to debunk the Democrats' newest talking points, that CRT isn't real and it's just a rightwing scare tactic.  Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/support See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Andreas Hardhaug Olsen is a writer, visiting The Cave to talk about the connection between Social Justice activism and «Critical Theory», an intellectual product of The Frankfurt School. He sits down with Tuv to discuss what happens to culture when «objectivity» is deemed an oppressive tool, and dissent is fiercely attacked - or at best dismissed as «false consciousness». «Wokeness» being a major threat to «creative freedom», knowledge of its principles and origin is fundamental to survival. Olsen also delves into the thinkers who originated this mentality, and how it is being employed. Hardhaug Olsen's Reading list: * Herbert Marcuse, Repressive Tolerance: https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/publications/1960s/1965-repressive-tolerance-fulltext.html * Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimenstional Man: https://www.akademika.no/one-dimensional-man/marcuse-herbert/9780415289771 * Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness: https://www.bokkilden.no/sosial-og-kulturhistorie/history-and-class-consciousness-georg-lukacs/produkt.do?produktId=2250341 * Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: https://www.bokklubben.no/moderne-filosofi-etter-1800/the-dialectical-imagination-martin-jay/produkt.do?produktId=424096 * Thomas Sowell, The Quest for Cosmic Justice: https://www.adlibris.com/no/bok/the-quest-for-cosmic-justice-9780684864631 * F. A. Hayek, The Mirage of Social Justice: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo5970048.html * Helen Pluckrose & James Lindsay, Cynical Theories: https://www.tanum.no/_cynical-theories-helen-pluckrose-james-lindsay-9781800750043 The conversation was produced by Bork S. Nerdrum, with assistance from Sebastian Salvo. The centerpiece was a reproduction of Thomas Cole's painting "The Course of Empire - Destruction". SHOUTOUT to our TOP SPONSORS! Dean Anthony Fergus Ryan Anders Berge Christensen Stacey Evangelista Alastair Blain Shaun Roberts Michael Irish Sofia Xiang Peter Asinger Herman Borge Jack Entz Warner Tonelise Rugaas Yngve Hellan Would you like to get previews, bonus material and other benefits? Become a patron: https://patreon.com/caveofapelles/ Subscribe to our newsletter. It is the only way to make sure that you receive content from us on a regular basis: https://bit.ly/2L8qCNn Check out our other channels: https://www.youtube.com/c/SchoolofApelles https://www.youtube.com/c/CultureWarsNow Podcast available on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Spotify: https://soundcloud.com/caveofapelles https://spoti.fi/2AVDkcT https://apple.co/2QAcXD6 Visit our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/caveofapelles Make sure to subscribe to our channel over at BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/caveofapelles/ For inquiries — talk@caveofapelles.com

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate, Mike Mazza and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss philosophy professor Peter Boghossian's resignation from Portland State University, prompted by a backlash from students and faculty to his controversial positions. Among the topics covered: Boghossian's experience at Portland State University as a sign of the increasing tribalism at universities;Whether “grievance studies” is the cause of the increasing hooliganism on college campuses;The attitude toward truth and facts on college campuses today;How leftist ideology took over campuses;The upcoming Objectivist Academic Center course about the ideas from critical theory that facilitated the rise of the left;How alternative educational institutions can help combat irrational ideologies in academia;The Ayn Rand University as a powerful alternative educational institution;Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay;The impact of postmodernism in academia today;How skepticism undermines the ideas of otherwise good thinkers. You can sign up to audit courses at the Objectivist Academic Center here. This podcast was recorded on September 29, 2021. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. https://youtu.be/C-qBL3SrTTg Podcast audio:

In this episode of Sacred Tension, I speak with scholar and author Helen Pluckrose about her book Cynical Theories. We discuss where she believes modern social justice went wrong, whether technology is the primary explanation for online dysfunction, the limiting of LGBT identities, and much more. Find her organization Counterweight here: https://counterweightsupport.com/  Become a Patron to support my crippling content creation addiction: https://www.patreon.com/StephenBradfordLong 

A plea to the weary to return to the Woke Wars ... Who is James Lindsay? ... Lindsay's book, Cynical Theories ... Lindsay's other critiques of wokeness ... The religion of wokeness, the religion of anti-wokeness ... Lindsay jumps on the Trump train (starts shoveling coal) ... The anti-semitism thing ... David: In a way, Lindsay is on the side of BLM ...

A plea to the weary to return to the Woke Wars ... Who is James Lindsay? ... Lindsay's book, Cynical Theories ... Lindsay's other critiques of wokeness ... The religion of wokeness, the religion of anti-wokeness ... Lindsay jumps on the Trump train (starts shoveling coal) ... The anti-semitism thing ... David: In a way, Lindsay is on the side of BLM ...

Matt and Anne discuss the book “Cynical Theories” by James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose. The authors are not Christian but their critique of the various forms of Critical Theory presently dividing western society (including the church) over questions of race,...

Ryan and Josh review and discuss the book “Cynical Theories” by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsey. The book discusses various fields of what is known as “Critical Theories,” “Social Justice Scholarship,” or simply “Theory). Including Fat Studies, Feminism, and, of course, Critical Race Theory among others.  Episode Book: https://cynicaltheories.com/ Other books mentioned: https://mises.org/library/austrian-perspective-history-economic-thought https://www.amazon.com/Marine-Biology-Short-Introduction-Introductions/dp/0199695059 https://www.amazon.com/Anthem-Ayn-Rand/dp/1502859939 Slavery and economics:  Mark Thornton has many good, peer reviewed, articles on the topic of slavery and economics that can be easily found with a quick google search in lieu of that here is a good talk he delivered on the subject: https://mises.org/power-market/mark-thornton-economics-slavery   Lost knowledge:  I couldn't find any sources on the lost knowledge in the field of optometry. I know it's mentioned in “An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought” but it's a dense book and I can't find it. Until I can find a source we can say statements about this are up in the air on whether they are factual.  Links:   iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tarred-and-feathered/id1559183879 Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/show/6KJ9ZQ7rj9ErbmRyBmOTFU?si=z3wAwRFhSa29HIlhFDs9sQ Stitcher: Tarred and Feathered on Stitcher Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TarredAndFeather Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TAFCast/ Email: Tarredfeathered907@gmail.com  And Remember to leave us a review!

After a 3-week hiatus, Corinna and Nina discuss the book Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay. Nina takes a more nuanced approach to Judith Butler, discovering something she said that isn't utter nonsense. Corinna questions “misogyny” and “patriarchy,” and challenges Nina's “feminist lens,” after which Nina tells Corinna to f__k himself. It's good to be back! Links: Glenn Loury and John McWhorter discuss “What's Systemic about Systemic Racism?" https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/62356 Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53052177-cynical-theories?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=KkQQGeLMwg&rank=1 T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us by Carole Hooven: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53138024-t?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=w99uXfWC9E&rank=1 The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324722-the-righteous-mind?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=ieRWcm8zhB&rank=1 Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality by Helen Joyce: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56897445-trans?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=P6HMcwJBU0&rank=1 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heterodorx/support

In the final episode of our series exploring what Critical Race Theory (CRT) is, we speak with author, mathematician, and political commentator, Dr. James Lindsay. James has written six books spanning a range of subjects including religion, the philosophy of science and postmodern theory. He is the founder of New Discourses and currently promoting his new book "Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody." Dr. Lindsay offers a viewpoint and opinion on Critical Race Theory that differs from the previous two guests in this series. While many believe that CRT is a legal framework by which to view the racial disparity among minorities, Dr. Lindsay argues that this is a dangerous, and racist, theory that undermines the progress and the vision of the Civil Rights Movement. If you are interested in hearing a counter argument to CRT, Dr. Lindsay provides a well informed and well researched view that you are unlikely to hear anywhere else. To learn more about New Discourses, please visit: https://newdiscourses.comHere is an article from the Atlantic about the Sokal squared paper we referenced in the show: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/new-sokal-hoax/572212/Guest Bio:James Lindsay has a doctorate in math and background in physics. He is the author of five books and his essays have appeared in TIME, Scientific American, and The Philosophers' Magazine. He led the "grievance studies affair" probe and his forthcoming book with Helen Pluckrose, Cynical Theories, looks at the evolution of postmodern thought in scholarship and activism.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/faithpolitics)

Join my fight against media bias and download the Ground News App at https://ground.news/soh  Dr. Debra Soh and James Lindsay (co-author of "Cynical Theories") discuss consensual non-monogamy, attachment styles, and how Critical Theory grooms young people.  "The End of Gender" is now available in paperback! Pre-order at DrDebraSoh.com  Follow @DrDebraSoh on Instagram for behind-the-scenes content  © 2021 Dr. Debra Soh

Helen Pluckrose, a British author, cultural writer, and founder of Counterweight, a home of scholarship and advice on Critical Social Justice ideology. Helen is perhaps best known for her critiques of critical social justice and promotion of liberal ethics, most notably in the grievance studies affair. Along with James Lindsay, she co-authored the book Cynical Theories about how “Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity-and Why This Harms Everybody".”She is one of the three masterminds behind the grievance studies affair series of academic hoaxes and the founder of Counterweight, the home of scholarship and advice on Critical Social Justice ideology.

On this week's podcast, Jimmy Sengenberger speaks with former Sen. Rick Santorum in-person at the Western Conservative Summit about the importancce of the filibuster to our republican form of government. Plus, we talk with Dr. James Lindsay, PhD., author of Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody, at the Leadership Program of the Rockies Retreat.  Plus, Jimmy breaks down how Biden's global corporate tax scheme will cripple America and updates on Michael Avenatti's sentencing. If you like what you hear, please SUBSCRIBE to the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts!

For our 100th episode here on Tulips & Honey we have a very special guest joining the program today! It was such a privilege to have Dr. Josh Buice discussing CRT and intersectionality with me, it's such an important topic. I'm so thankful for his explanations and the stand he's taken against the Social Justice movement. I've added an outline for today's episode, as well as all the links to books and resources mentioned by Dr. Buice. TS 00:02:45 - Josh shares his testimony TS 00:07:45 - How can we help make people aware of false converts in church? TS 00:11:45 - Do you have any encouragement for pastors of small churches? TS 00:13:20 - What is the Gospel? TS 00:18:15 - What is CRT, Intersectionality, and Social Justice? Cynical Theories by James Lindsey: https://www.amazon.com/Cynical-Theories-Scholarship-Everything-Identity_and/dp/1634312023/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1624896376&sr=8-1 Intersectionality Score website: https://intersectionalityscore.com TS 00:29:30 - How did you become concerned with CRT? TS 00:35:00 - Sign the Dallas Statement on Social Justice: https://statementonsocialjustice.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SSJG-FINAL.pdf TS 00:36:45 - What do you think about the SBC's Resolution 9? TS 00:44:00 - What is the difference between reparations and atonement? TS 00:47:00 - Equity vs Equality by Just Thinking: TS 00:49:00 - How do we address CRT slipping into our churches? TS 00:51:00 - Should someone consider leaving their church if they continue teaching CRT? TS 00:54:30 - Resources recommended for listeners/viewers to learn more: 1. Statementonsocialjustice.com 2. https://newdiscourses.com 3. Faultlines by Voddie Baucham: https://www.amazon.com/Fault-Lines-Movement-Evangelicalisms-Catastrophe/dp/1684511801 TS 00:59:20 - What are some things/tactics you recommend believers use and some you might recommend we avoid using, when discussing CRT/SJW/BLM with others? Ad Hominem: https://biblicalbeginningsblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/series-on-logic-ad-hominem/ TS 01:02:00 - Listeners Questions TS 01:02:20 - Is it time to leave the SBC? TS 01:08:30 - Any seminaries you can recommend that are standing against CRT? The Master's Seminary: https://tms.edu BMA: https://bmats.edu Grace Bible Seminary: https://www.gbtseminary.org TS 01:10:50 - What are the subtle signs of CRT is seeping into my church? TS 01:12:20 - Any materials that would help children understand CRT? Westminster Kid's Catechism: https://reformed.org/historic-confessions/the-childrens-catechism/ Paul Washer's Catechism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM2u44pd4Ac&list=PLC8D6BFB3FBA4522C Catechism blog resources: https://www.reformedmama.com/childrens-catechism https://biblicalbeginningsblog.wordpress.com/2018/08/04/homeschooling-resources-childrens-catechism/     01:16:30 - What do you have coming up that we can look forward to? G3: https://g3min.org 01:20:15 - How do you feel about pineapple pizza? 01:22:30 - How can we be praying for you? Delivered by Grace: https://g3min.org/blogs/josh-buice/   For more information about Dr. Buice you can find him on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoshBuice Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoshBuice Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshbuice/   If you'd like more information about Tulips & Honey check out my website: 5Solas.Online  My blog over at: https://www.wordpress.com/biblicalbeg …  My store: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/tulips-h …  or my Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/Tulipshoneyhub    For questions, comments, recommendations, prayer requests, you can contact me on social media or via my email biblicalbeginnings@outlook.com

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Dr. Debra Soh and James Lindsay (co-author of "Cynical Theories" and founder of NewDiscourses.com) discuss how James met his wife (in traffic!); the best ways to meet a romantic partner; and how to make a long-term relationship work. Get "The End of Gender" at DrDebraSoh.com (suitable for adolescents). The audiobook is FREE on Audible and read by Dr. Soh (link available on her website). Follow Dr. Debra Soh on Instagram & Twitter @DrDebraSoh © 2021 Dr. Debra Soh

James Lindsay is an American mathematician, author, and cultural critic. He is known for his involvement in the grievance studies affair with Peter Boghossian and Helen Pluckrose, the latter with whom he co-authored the nonfiction book Cynical Theories. Follow Zuby - https://twitter.com/zubymusic Follow James - https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames Subscribe to the 'Real Talk With Zuby' podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify & more - https://fanlink.to/zubypodcast Support Zuby on Patreon - https://patreon.com/zubymusic Special thanks to GOLD TIER Patreon members: Ebele Achor, Adam Patterson, Joseph Skelton, Darla Aranda, Andrea Mucelli & Matt Gallagher! Website - https://zubymusic.com Online Store - https://teamzuby.com 'Strong Advice: Zuby's Guide to Fitness For Everybody' eBook https://gumroad.com/l/zubyfitness

A fault line emerges in the church. Critical Race Theory is a danger to the church and society. How should Christians speak on racial justice and reconciliation? All this and more in today's review.

Quillette founder Claire Lehmann speaks with “Cynical Theories” co-author (and Grievance Studies Hoax collaborator) Helen Pluckrose about the influence of postmodern ideas in the formulation of the latest iterations of Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, and other “intersectional” doctrines

Quillette founder Claire Lehmann speaks with “Cynical Theories” co-author (and Grievance Studies Hoax collaborator) Helen Pluckrose about the influence of postmodern ideas in the formulation of the latest iterations of Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, and other “intersectional” doctrines

In this episode Peter and Brad continue their discussion of chapter 5 of Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay. We see how Critical Race Theory leads to Intersectionality. We define the terms and consider how they impact the modern social justice movement. We conclude with a discussion of several PCA Overtures related to CRT.Related Links:https://1bf02db2-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/natalyadell/home/intersectionality/nocite-Axes%20of%20dominance%20privilege%20and%20oppression.png?attachauth=ANoY7criuL1HWGDAk7A-MQQhPdVRaLof0j80gjJHz6OYtnaMbAhj-GgyYnp8NAxtW36_bjDakQ_NgRS69oN_AHTYvXyfXRjueYH_SmRvtdD8LcSP3QuwakG6346eOa7K8Fd021HAoyGpumfBUhcoCyke-PimSRsZYCM25LZrFbXieNwnCxalmO5jMwbXR0mrqV2HQK9Xycn13Fkz0_qQQM2a_x2-5ComQNjI2Hoqdf4AZuN2FX1iQVn8-wYvVTIl3IXHlYTOrUNhZ3w0AT07_wcnSDIE2kKUo1TYk19VYn0bAsMl5Egi6gs%3D&attredirects=0 (Intersectionality Graphic)https://pcaga.org/resources/ (PCA GA Overtures):https://pcaga.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Overture-36-Chesapeake-Study-Comm-White-Supremacy.pdf (36 - Study Committee on White Supremacy)https://pcaga.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Overture-45-Metro-Atlanta-Seek-Asian-American-Flourishing.pdf (45 - Seek Asian American Flourishing)https://pcaga.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Overture-47-Chesapeake-AIC-on-CRT.pdf (47 - Study Committee on CRT)Article by Jennifer Ho, Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, "https://theconversation.com/white-supremacy-is-the-root-of-all-race-related-violence-in-the-us-157566 (White Supremacy is the Root of All Race-Related Violence in the US)." This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit soundengagement.substack.com

Since the summer of 2020, Critical Race Theory, and Critical Theory in general, have come out from the academic world and moved into popular culture. Helen Pluckrose, a self-described "exile from the humanities" and James Lindsay, have co-authored a detailed assessment of these Critical Theories. Join Scott and Sean as they interview Helen and she makes a complex subject accessible for those unfamiliar with the topic. [Show notes, including a full transcript, are available at www.biola.edu/thinkbiblically]

Today's Guest is Ben Neill. I first met Ben when I got the opportunity to perform LaMonte Young's The Melodic Version of The Second Dream of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from The Four Dreams of China with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for their Fluxus Festival. Ben is a truly unique thinker, and I must admit this conversation is amongst my favorite not just on this podcast, but in my life in general. As you will hear in this conversation, Ben and I both share a concern for some of the trends in arts and education, which are largely the product of a broad acceptance of Critical Theory and postmodern modes of thought in Western societies. Ben references many texts, but we share a love for Mario Vargas Llosa's seminal essay Notes on the Death of Culture. For a comprehensive rundown on this why Critical Theory is so dangerous, I recommend you listen to my episode entitled The Case Against Latinx and Critical Theory. Critical Theory poses a real threat to civilization, but most humans continue to show their idiocy in believing that history is over, and that the Dark Ages have no way of returning, and their naïveté is evident in the assumption knowledge is safe from destruction thanks to Wikipedia. Read More about Ben: https://benneill.com/ Further Reading: Vargas Llosa, Notes on the Death of Culture: https://www.amazon.com/Notes-Death-Culture-Spectacle-Society/dp/0374123047/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=mario+vargas+llosa+notes+towards&qid=1621321683&sr=8-1 T.S. Eliot, Notes Towards the Definition of Culture: https://www.amazon.com/Notes-Towards-Definition-Culture-Eliot/dp/0571063136/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=ts+eliot+notes&qid=1621321746&sr=8-2 Dreger, Galileo's Middle Finger: https://www.amazon.com/Galileos-Middle-Finger-Heretics-Activists/dp/0143108115/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3GLKCNA5UUFFS&dchild=1&keywords=galileos+middle+finger&qid=1621321777&sprefix=galileos+middel%2Caps%2C229&sr=8-1 Pluckrose, Lindsay, Cynical Theories: https://www.amazon.com/Cynical-Theories-Scholarship-Everything-Identity_and/dp/1634312023/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=cynical+theories&qid=1621321836&sr=8-1 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artssalon/support

Dr. Debra Soh is joined by Helen Pluckrose (co-author of "Cynical Theories") to talk about protecting yourself from Critical Social Justice in the workplace; protecting children from these ideas in education; and how social justice discriminates against those on the autism spectrum.  Get “The End of Gender” at DrDebraSoh.com (suitable for adolescents).  The audiobook is FREE on Audible and read by Dr. Soh (link available on her website).  Follow Dr. Debra Soh on Instagram & Twitter @DrDebraSoh  Read “Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives do not belong in academia”: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/opinion/article-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-initiatives-do-not-belong-in-academia/  The paper that was discussed: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12119-018-9536-0  © 2021 Dr. Debra Soh

Wolfgang Wee Uncut #126: Jan-Ove Tuv er kunstner, podcaster, instruktør og tidligere elev av Odd Nerdrum. Sammen med Bork S. Nerdrum, driver han også Youtube-kanalen og podcasten: @Cave of Apelles I denne podcasten snakker vi om: Woke, Kritisk Teori, Dekolonisering, Hybris, Sløserikommisjonen, Moby Dick, Gud, Døden, Jesus og Det Nye Testamentet, Evigheten, Kulturrådet, Og Har Kirken Lagt Seg På Rygg?Se hele episoden her: https://youtu.be/HTPntzc4Zy0----------------------------------------------Bokliste:Herman Melvilles «Moby Dick» Charles Dickens «Bleak House»Cynical Theories, av James Lindsay og Helen Pluckrose: https://www.tanum.no/_cynical-theories-james-lindsay-helen-pluckrose-9781800750043Europe's Inner Demons (Heftet) The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom Norman Cohn https://www.tanum.no/_europes-inner-demons-norman-cohn-9780226113074The Darkening Age (Heftet)The Christian Destruction of the Classical WorldCatherine Nixeyhttps://www.tanum.no/_the-darkening-age-catherine-nixey-9781509816071Joseph Campbell, Helten med tusen ansikter: https://www.tanum.no/_helten-med-tusen-ansikter-joseph-campbell-9788243010017Herbert Marcuses essay «Repressive Tolerance»: https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/publications/1960s/1965-repressive-tolerance-fulltext.htmlKoronasertifikat: https://steigan.no/2021/05/stans-koronasertifikatet/?fbclid=IwAR0Gn_K4vsQufI8fAEr6OHfkUH1eEQirLbBWuk2UehbUeHv8_URGy_FvTNIJames Lindsays nettside: newdiscourses.comRobert McKee - StoryFenrik Ståls segner», av J. L. Runeberg. Diktet «Brødrene» , side 259.https://www.nb.no/items/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2010070206038?page=258--------------------------------------------------------------------Webshop: https://www.pod-cast.no/webshop/HjemmesideInstagramFacebookTwitterHør Wolfgang Wee Uncut (Høydepunkter) i Spotify Hør Wolfgang Wee Uncut i SpotifyHør Wolfgang Wee Uncut i Apple PodcastSe Wolfgang Wee Uncut på Youtube See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Have you ever been called a racist simply because you are white? What is systemic racism and is it true? In this episode I will discuss how Critical Race Theory says marginalized groups of minorities have a unique voice to speak about racism. We will examine the claim and see how the fruits of Critical Race Theory are rotten.    Connect with Me:  Instagram Twitter     Footnotes: Quote 1--Delgado and Stefancic, Critical Race Theory, 22. Quote 2 (Need training to see racism)--Pluckrose and Lindsay, Cynical Theories, 17 (epub).  Quote 3 (microaggressions)--Delgado and Stefancic, Critical Race Theory, 17.  Quotes 4 & 5 (Washington Examiner article)--https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ucla-student-soap-dispensers-racist Quote 6 (no white person is innocent)--Delgado and Stefancic, Critical Race Theory, 65.  Quote 7 (Coddling of the American Mind)--Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (New York, NY: Penguin Press, 2018), 188.   Special Thanks to Melissa Baines at MBainesGDP.com for the Logo Design  

Townhall Review for May 1, 2021 Hugh Hewitt talks with Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan about his call for John Kerry to resign as Biden’s climate envoy following reports that Kerry had met with Iran’s foreign minister and informed him that Israel had attacked Iranian interests in Syria at least 200 times. Seth Liebsohn talks with National Review writer David Harsanyi who has accused John Kerry of not just being a critic of Israel, but an adversary. Dennis Prager and James Lindsay talk about his book, “Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity and Why This Harms Everybody.” Charlie Kirk examines the disturbing trend of far-left activist threats that caused a Seattle church to rescind an offer to have him speak after getting what the pastor called “terrorist” threats. Larry Elder talks about often overlooked facts surrounding police shootings. Mike Gallagher looks at the 2021 Academy Awards, with stars preaching a left-wing ideology, except for one star who took an entirely different path. Hugh Hewitt talks with Washington Examiner’s Byron York about the census numbers showing red states gaining congressional seats while blue states lost them. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the episode we review chapter five of Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay. The subtitle of the chapter is "Ending Racism by Seeing It Everywhere." It is an excellent and concise way of explaining the approach of critical race Theorists and advocates of Intersectionality. We review the postmodern background to these views and consider ways in which CRT/I has affected psychology and the church.We discuss a chart that defines "Aspects & Assumptions of Whiteness & White Culture in the United States" that was put together by the African-American History Museum. You can find the chart in this article "https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/antiracism-training-white-fragility-robin-diangelo-ibram-kendi.html (Is the Anti-Racism Industry Just Peddling White Supremacy?)"We also discuss the relationship between CRT and https://thewitnessbcc.com/leave-loud-jemar-tisbys-story/ (Jemar Tisby's #LeaveLOUD movement). Here's a link to our podcast review of https://player.captivate.fm/episode/aa0a0ef1-e52a-474c-ae55-031ea4d72879 (Jemar Tisby's The Color of Compromise). Ibram X. Kendi and many others have promoted the authority of personal experience and moved away from materialist analysis. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit soundengagement.substack.com

This is the third video in a series on Critical Race Theory. In this episode I will show you the four basis tenets of CRT. Then, we will discuss how CRT redefines 'Race' and 'Racism'. In the end, we will see how CRT pushes racism through their hypocrisy. Finally, I discuss the real answer to racial harmony is only found in the Gospel of Christ.  Connect with me: Instagram Twitter Full Playlist here:  https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9ck3iE_hIE_7Or1GTiGSMrQNAi9hwNln   Special Thanks to Melissa Baines at MBainesGDP.com for the Logo Design Footnotes: Four tenets of CRT from Delgado & Stefancic Delgado and Stefancic, Critical Race Theory, 20-22. Defining CRT by Pluckrose & Lindsay Pluckrose and Lindsay, Cynical Theories, 15. Races as social construct quote Delgado and Stefancic, Critical Race Theory, 21. Attributing moral values to races  Pluckrose and Lindsay, Cynical Theories, 159. In the semantics of popular culture quote by Delgado & Stefancic Delgado and Stefancic, Critical Race Theory, 62 Martin Luther King Jr. Quote Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love (Beacon Press, 2019), 45.  Clip of MLK taken from:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O4kv6zypPQ The Root website article Damon Young, “Straight Black Men Are the White People of Black People,” Root, Accessed December 18, 2020. https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/straight-black-men-are-the-white-people-of-black-people-1814157214.  

We live in an interesting time. Christians and Atheists find themselves on the same side in a debate against those who would reject Reason and put the ideology/religion of "Theory" (Critical Theory) in its place. In this episode, Director Hodges and Pastor Kyle Dillon discuss the book "Cynical Theories" written by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay. These two self-described atheists investigate the various facets of "Theory" -- anti-colonialism, feminism, homosexuality, and critical race theory, among others, and reveal the dangers of embracing them. The fact that SOME Christians and SOME atheists have joined together on the side of Theory, while others of each stripe are against it proves this issue is not an easy one to discern. This episode attempts to show the strengths and weaknesses of the book's arguments.

In this episode Peter and Brad will review the fourth chapter of Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay. This chapter provides a brief history of Queer Theory and shows how it depended upon the postmodern philosophy of Michel Foucault.Related Episode:https://player.captivate.fm/episode/ff732920-e755-4551-ae7f-6fee5b62bd2d (Transgender Kids with Dr. Jeffrey Barrows) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit soundengagement.substack.com

Today on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy speaks with writer Helen Pluckrose about critical social justice ideology, what it is, and what to do about it.Helen is a liberal, secular humanist writer and cultural commentator. She is the editor-in-chief of Areo Magazine, a broadly liberal humanist digital magazine that focuses on current affairs, politics, culture, science, and art. She is also the founder of Counterweight, an organization that helps individuals resist the imposition of Critical Social Justice on their workplace, university, or children's school. She is co-author, with James Lindsay, of the bestselling book, Cynical Theories.Jeremy and Helen dive into the theory of critical social justice and how it is reshaping our cultural consciousness and its connection to woke power systems. Helen dissects a postmodernist view of relativism and the movement toward secular moralism. This provocative conversation is full of insights into various aspects of society, from Helen's concerns for American totalitarianism to race, feminism, sexual identity, religion, and much more.You'll also hear from American Philanthropic senior managing consultant Eric Streiff. Eric chats with Jeremy about digital marketing for nonprofit organizations. He offers insights on the type of content that's most helpful for nonprofit audiences and how to discover the “why” for your nonprofit's social media.  You can find Givers, Doers, & Thinkers here at Philanthropy Daily, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Buzzsprout, and wherever you listen to podcasts.We'd love to hear your thoughts, ideas, questions, and recommendations for the podcast! You can shoot Katie Janus, GDT's producer, an email anytime!

In this episode Peter and Brad discuss the incomprehensible beginnings of postcolonial theory and how it compares to the mindset of today's postmodernism. As the first example of applied postmodernism, postcolonial theory provides a foundation for queer theory, critical race theory, and gender studies that follow. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit soundengagement.substack.com

James Lindsay is a leading critic of antiracism in the digital space. But he is a lightning rod for criticism and condemnation, with a style that many believe makes him a damaging influence on the public discourse. For others, he is a champion of truth telling and an independent intellectual voice that needs to be heard. John Wood, Jr., national ambassador for Braver Angels and a public voice on matters of race and society, plumbs the depths of antiracism in its substance, cultural origins, and arguments in this far-reaching conversation on one of the most important intellectual movements of our time. Lindsay is founder of the media website New Discourses (www.newdiscourses.com), and co-author of Cynical Theories (www.cynicaltheories.com), a book on critical race and gender studies written in collaboration with Helen Pluckrose. Twitter: @braverangels, @ConceptualJames, @JohnRWoodJr

A feminist pledge seeks to correct the gender imbalance of museums, foundations and private collections. It is backed up by an organization representing over 100 culture-related organizations. However, their «fairness» hides a core tenet of Critical Theory: objective knowledge does not exist, but is merely "a male, Eurocentric construct". In the end, Critical Theory will only amplify the core principles of Fine Art in a shared zeal to end all ideas of meritocracy. Third-wave feminism will not catapult female classical-figurative painters into accepted collections. In Social Justice rhetoric they suffer from "false consciousness" and have "internalized the male gaze". The good news is: in Europe people are reacting to CT, also from the left. It is of vital importance that we know what Fine Art and Critical Theory is. The future of culture depends upon it. Books referred to in this Cave Comment and that may well save your life: Larry Shiner: "The Invention of Art" Pluckrose/Lindsay: "Cynical Theories" "Cave Comments" applies an archetypical perspective to current culture, excavating underlying principles. Do you have tips of culture news Tuv should cover? Or can you recommend sites, media (etc) he should follow to be informed of the culture field? Please write to talk@caveofapelles.com SHOUTOUT to our TOP SPONSORS! Dean Anthony Maurice Robins Nichollis Thurman Michael Irish Shaun Roberts Jared Fountain Marco Campos Anders Berge Christensen Stacey Evangelista Alastair Blain Erik Lasky Fergus Ryan Would you like to get previews, bonus material and other benefits? Become a patron: https://patreon.com/caveofapelles/ Subscribe to our newsletter. It is the only way to make sure that you receive content from us on a regular basis: https://bit.ly/2L8qCNn Podcast available on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Spotify: https://soundcloud.com/caveofapelles https://spoti.fi/2AVDkcT https://apple.co/2QAcXD6 Visit our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/caveofapelles Make sure to subscribe to our channel over at BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/caveofapelles/ For inquiries — talk@caveofapelles.com

In this episode of Sound Engagement, Peter and Brad discuss a couple of highlights from chapter two of https://www.amazon.com/Cynical-Theories-Scholarship-Everything-Identity_and/dp/1634312023 (Cynical Theories) by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay. This chapter explains how postmodernism became a useful paradigm for political and social activism.Related Links:http://www.soundengagementnow.com/sample-page/cynical-theories-part-1-postmodernism/ (Cynical Theories (Part 1): Postmodernism)https://quillette.com (Quillette) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit soundengagement.substack.com

A huge thanks to Seth White for the awesome music! Thanks to Palmtoptiger17 for the beautiful logo: https://www.instagram.com/palmtoptiger17/ Discord Discussion Board: https://disboard.org/server/474580298630430751  Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thewayfourth/?modal=admin_todo_tour YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTd3KlRte86eG9U40ncZ4XA?view_as=subscriber Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theway4th/  The Historic Faith Courses: https://thehistoricfaith.com/ The Kingdom Outpost: https://kingdomoutpost.org/?fbclid=IwAR1KL57kqq5u7krqY37PKZ3weazk1yELVXGYwLC9asL01QjrjFvyFrjXoZU Bradley Mason's CRT Series [Part 3]: https://thefrontporch.org/2020/07/the-christian-and-critical-race-theory-part-3-a-bridge-dr-derrick-bell/ Preston Sprinkle talks about dismissing CRT's methodology while recognizing the problems it legitimately points out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAalg-yhR_M "Unbelievable" podcast episode on CRT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbzPDoEgO_s "Cynical Theories" explores the problems with critical theory taken to its full, logical end: https://www.amazon.com/Cynical-Theories-Scholarship-Everything-Identity_and/dp/1634312023/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=cynical+theories&qid=1602772561&sr=8-2 Political Changes to the American Westminster Confession 1788: https://opc.org/documents/WCF_orig.html Response to SBC statement on CRT: https://www.baptiststandard.com/opinion/other-opinions/commentary-where-i-stand-on-the-statement-by-sbc-seminary-presidents/ Romans 13 Episode 1: https://thefourthway.transistor.fm/episodes/rebuttal-romans-13 Romans 13 Episode 2: https://thefourthway.transistor.fm/episodes/rebuttal-romans-13-part-2 Abstention Episode: https://thefourthway.transistor.fm/episodes/se2-abstention-from-political-idolatry ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Meghan Murphy speaks with Helen Pluckrose, co-author of Cynical Theories and one of the masterminds behind the Grievance Studies hoax, about postmodernism, feminism, what liberalism actually means, and why she manages to "annoy everyone." This interview took place on January 5, 2021, and was initially only made available to patrons. Learn more about Counterweight. Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody is co-authored by James Lindsay and published by Swift Press. Watch this interview on YouTube. Please support The Same Drugs (and gain early access to select content) on Patreon. The Same Drugs is on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Keep the conversation going on Reddit. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-same-drugs/support

Robin Collins discusses a book called "Cynical Theories" that he admires. It criticizes the merger between critical theory and post-modernism, which has led progressive thinkers to switch from universalist, "color blind" commitments to tribalism that replaces class-based analyses. Collins and Metta agree in their opposition to this "tribalist" ideology.

Keri and Carter are joined by members of the Unsafe Space community to discuss Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay. Links Referenced in the Show: Thanks for Watching! The best way to follow Unsafe Space, no matter which platforms ban us, is to visit: https://unsafespace.com While we're still allowed on YouTube, please don't forget to verify that you're subscribed, and to like and share this episode. You can find us there at: https://unsafespace.com/channel For episode clips, visit: https://unsafespace.com/clips Also, come join our community of dangerous thinkers at the following social media sites...at least until we get banned: Twitter: @unsafespace Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unsafepage Instagram: @_unsafespace Gab: @unsafe Minds: @unsafe Parler: @unsafespace Locals: unsafespace.locals.com MeWe: https://mewe.com/p/unsafespace Telegram Chat: https://t.me/joinchat/H4OUclXTz4xwF9EapZekPg To help us continue operating, please visit: https://unsafespace.com/donate Don't forget to pick up some Unsafe Space merch while you're there!

Geoff Shullenberger is a senior lecturer at NYU, a self-described marginal academic, and one of the most incisive analysts of the current moment that I've yet to chat to. We discuss his analysis of Postmodernism in the context of the now-famous release of "Cynical Theories" by Lindsay/Pluckrose, the rediscovery of Christopher Lasch & Rene Girard, and how power is flexing its beefy managerial apparatus in this time of *emergency*. We also cover the recent Mark Crispin Miller thought crime scandal at NYU, where Geoff lectures as well. Audio isn't ideal but workable. If you want to help me get a sound engineer, please consider donating to the show's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive You can find Geoff's latest work at outsidertheory.com And on his Twitter @daily_barbarian Music: Discovery by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aksubversive/message

In this episode we begin a series reviewing https://www.amazon.com/Cynical-Theories-Scholarship-Everything-Identity_and/dp/1634312023 (Cynical Theories): How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity - and Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose and James LindsayWe briefly cover the introduction and first chapter. We encourage you to pick up a copy of the book and join us as we discuss it together. Our goal is not simply to summarize the content of the book, which is an analysis of the culture, but to elaborate upon how these ideas impact Christianity and the Church specifically. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit soundengagement.substack.com

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3Czyd0XSEso The alarmists were right: ideas that were only a few years ago complacently dismissed as the perennial agitation of a few campus loonies are now pervasive in the corporate world, mass media and pop culture. Critical race theory, transgender ideology, the obsessive search for oppressive power relations in every aspect of life and every feature of language, the demand for all to be activists, shutting down of dissenting speech as violence: common sense or the gift of a solid Catholic formation will suffice for most who reject these ideologies. But some will want a more rigorous critique or a deeper understanding of the philosophical roots of radical leftist activism. To that end, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay have written Cynical Theories, a very helpful primer on the development of modern activism from 1960s postmodernist philosophy. In this episode, Thomas and political philosopher Darel Paul discuss the book, which tracks how postcolonial theory, queer theory, women's/gender studies, critical race theory, and other activist fields have instantiated or adapted the following central principles and themes of postmodernism: Postmodern principles: Radical skepticism about the ability to know anything, cultural constructivism Society is formed of systems of power and hierarchies which decide what and how things can be known Postmodern themes: The blurring of boundaries, the power of language, cultural relativism, loss of the individual and the universal The episode concludes with a critique of Pluckrose and Lindsay's prescription of a return to Enlightenment liberalism as a corrective to postmodernism. Contents [1:41] Reasons for discussing Cynical Theories [4:36] Evidence of postmodernist activist movements reaching the mainstream [10:58] What the book contributes to the discourse on woke ideology [15:00] Similarities and differences between postmodernism and Marxism [26:25] The core postmodern principles and themes [38:53] Policing speech as a tool of power rather than a rational means of communicating truth [47:58] The proliferation of postmodern principles into a number of activist fields [49:47] Defining one's identity in terms of suffering and oppression [55:07] Tension between postmodern rejection of categories and the need to have categories to critique power relations; the emergence of queer theory; deliberate incoherence as liberation [1:01:06] Conundrum for LGBTQ activists: gain “normal” status or destroy idea of normality? [1:06:40] Gender theory vs. critical race theory on categories [1:18:50] Postmodernism as a class ideology? [1:24:17] The postcolonial critique of science; epistemic relativism [1:27:30] Critique of Pluckrose and Lindsay's advocacy of a return to Enlightenment liberalism [1:32:51] Liberalism as an inherently negative and deconstructive philosophy [1:40:04] Postmodernism as an extension and/or consequence of liberalism [2:04:33] How to communicate truth to someone who believes language is merely power?  Links Pluckrose and Lindsay, Cynical Theories https://www.amazon.com/Cynical-Theories-Scholarship-Everything-Identity_and/dp/1634312023 Darel Paul, “Against Racialism” https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/10/against-racialism Darel Paul, “Listening at the Great Awokening” https://areomagazine.com/2019/04/17/listening-at-the-great-awokening/ Darel Paul, “The Global Community Is a Fantasy” https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-global-community-is-a-fantasy/ Darel Paul, From Tolerance to Equality https://www.baylorpress.com/9781481306959/from-tolerance-to-equality/ Ep. 61 on liberalism as an anti-culture with James Matthew Wilson https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/ep-61-liberal-anti-culture-vs-western-vision-soul-pt-i-james-matthew-wilson/ Ep. 18 on the vice of acedia manifested in our refusal to accept our given nature https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/episode-18-acedia-forgotten-capital-sin-rj-snell/ Christmas episodes: It's a Wonderful Life (1946) film discussion w/ Patrick Coffin https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/its-wonderful-life-1946-w-patrick-coffin/ CCP 59 – The Glorious English Carol https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/episode-59-glorious-english-carol/ This podcast is a production of CatholicCulture.org. If you like the show, please consider supporting us! http://catholicculture.org/donate/audio

In which we: Discuss the confusion that characterizes our world Consider a biblical understanding of fear Review Cynical Theories, by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bombadilsporch/message

Penguin employees revolt over Jordan Peterson's latest book, COVIDSafe data 'incidentally' collected by intelligence agencies and the Liberal Party's proposed ban on cash payments is quietly shelved. James and Pete discuss those stories and share their heroes and villains for the week, including Piotr Marklielau, the schoolkids protesting to learn about controversial views, the Denver mayor travelling for Thanksgiving after weeks of telling families not to and Twitter only factchecking Trump and not the Chinese Communist Party. Cynical Theories co-author James Lindsay joins the show to discuss the book, postmodernism, how it has become so powerful today and what it holds for the future. (19:51-1:04:55) At the end, White Fragility author Robin D'Angelo gets paid more than black speakers, an aux cord dispute brings down a political party, the new WA Lib Leader shares an embarrassing photo of himself and a monolith gets left in the desert then disappears.

Even if he never said it, it sounds like something from the great novelist G K Chesterton. “When man ceases to believe in God, he doesn't believe in nothing, he believes in anything.”

This show covers a very wide range of subjects surrounding the state of academia. Helen Pluckrose is the editor of Areo Magazine and the co-author, alongside James Lindsay, the book Cynical Theories. Topics of the conversation include identity, gender, race, theory, trans issues and much more. If you are confused by current cultural issues, this will hopefully enlighten you. References https://uk.bookshop.org/books/white-fragility-why-it-s-so-hard-for-white-people-to-talk-about-racism/9780141990569 https://twitter.com/HPluckrose?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://areomagazine.com https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/ https://newdiscourses.com/2020/01/manifesto-against-enemies-modernity/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Irreversible-Damage-Transgender-Seducing-Daughters/dp/1684510317/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Irreversible+damage&qid=1605198088&s=books&sr=1-1 https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind-how-good-intentions-and-bad-ideas-are-setting-up-a-generation-for-failure/9780141986302

James Lindsay (@ConceptualJames) is a frequent guest. In this episode we explore the problematic roots of Critical Race Theory, and why it does not belong in government and education. Buy his book Cynical Theories: https://amzn.to/2F4ehuc James' website: newdiscourses.com Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Professor Stephen Blackwood plays host to filmmaker Mike Nayna and co-authors James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose for the launch of their essential new book Cynical Theories. This discussion traverses the likes of woke ideology, postmodern philosophy, and the politics of academia to form a compelling rebuke of contemporary critical theory and its influence on the public sphere.

Keri and Carter welcome James Lindsay back to the show for a live discussion. James is the founder and president of New Discourses (newdiscourses.com), an educational and media resources platform currently dedicated to explaining and helping people understand the Critical Social Justice scholarship and worldview. He is a bestselling author of six books and countless essays, including most recently How to Have Impossible Conversations (2019) with Peter Boghossian and Cynical Theories (forthcoming, 2020) with Helen Pluckrose. He's known for his participation in the Grievance Studies Affair (2018). You can follow James' work at the links below: New Discourses: newdiscourses.com Twitter: @ConceptualJames Cynical Theories: https://amzn.to/3j5rHVK The Grievance Studies Affair: https://bit.ly/2tEAA0g How to Have Impossible Conversations: http://bit.ly/ConversationsBook Thanks for watching! Please don't forget to like, subscribe, and share. Follow us on the following social media channels...at least until we get banned: Twitter: @unsafespace Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unsafepage Instagram: @_unsafespace Gab: @unsafe Minds: @unsafe Parler: @unsafespace Telegram Chat: https://t.me/joinchat/H4OUclXTz4xwF9EapZekPg Pick up some Unsafe Space merch at unsafespace.com! About Deprogrammed Hosted by former SJW Keri Smith, "Deprogrammed" is dedicated to unravelling Keri's former ideology. We'll explore the philosophy, strategy, and tactics that intersectional ideologues use to program "Social Justice Warriors," turning otherwise thoughtful, critically-minded individuals into armies of extreme leftist NPCs. Some episodes are interviews with special guests, and others are deep-dives into a different aspect of "social justice" culture, drawing both from Keri's personal experience as well as current events. YouTube link to video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/pv06fLzE1i4

Our guest this week is law professor Bruce Pardy, discussing his recent column in the Financial Post where he identifies Critical Theory as one of the causes of the current social upheaval.  Knowing the basics of Critical Theory will help you understand why it's often impossible to succeed by using reason and logic when arguing with the radicals.Bruce Pardy in the Financial Post, Jun 26, 2020: Apocalyptic science: How the West is destroying itselfQueen's University: Bruce Pardy, ProfessorYoutube, Mar 11, 2020: Bruce Pardy at the Runnymede Society--The Civil War Inside the Law and the Side the Law Schools Are OnHelen Pluckrose, James A. Lindsay and Peter Boghossian in AREO Magazine, Oct 2, 2018: Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship New Discourses WebsiteAmazon.ca: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose and James A. LindsaySupport the show (https://www.jccf.ca/donate/)