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00:21:56

Big Government Can't Produce Abundance

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2025/11/19

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 135Government can do many things in the world, but one thing it cannot do is produce abundance and prosperity. Why not? Its incentives are all wrong, and over time they tend to get worse. In this probing episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay dives into the intrinsic issues with government when it comes to creating abundance and prosperity, explaining why these are the product of a "problem-solving theory of value" that government is poorly incentivized

00:17:53

The Essence of Critical Theory

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2025/11/17

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 134At the center of Woke thinking is critical theory. So, what is it? In short, critical theory is a tool for delegitimizing a real thing for not being some kind of sociopolitical ideal thing that cannot even exist. The way it works is by holding the real thing up to the standards of an imaginary ideal rather than against the contingencies of reality and criticizing it with the aim of breaking people's faith in it, simply for existing in reality. It's a wicked tool

01:15:09

The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 9: The Centrality of the...

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2025/11/14

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 184At the center of the Nazi Experiment is the Jewish Question, undeniably. The Jewish Question amounts to asking "what should we do with the Jews?" in this case, in Europe. Across the entirety of his project, Adolf Hitler had a straightforward answer, though the specifics differed: get rid of them, all of them. In fact, he proudly campaigned for himself on the project of "solving the Jewish Question," not just on matters of German national pride

00:20:06

The Iterated Motte and Bailey Strategy

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2025/11/10

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 133Over the last few years, much has been said about the "motte and bailey" rhetorical strategy, which is a dishonest way in which postmodernist, Woke, and other manipulative people argue. First described by Nicholas Shackel in a 2005 paper, "On the Vacuity of Postmodern Methodology," it has become a standard explanation for the Woke era in the last few years. In Counter Wokecraft

01:41:19

Twentieth Century Woke—Left and Right | James Lindsay

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2025/11/07

Saving American Liberty, Session 4What does "Woke" mean? James Lindsay, founder of New Discourses, says it is an awakening to a "sociognostic" belief structure. What is that, and how does it manifest in different contexts? In this third talk from the Saving American Liberty learning seminar in Dallas, Texas, hosted by New Discourses on August 22-23, 2025, Lindsay explains the concept in considerable detail. He also applies it to the "20th century" (or, Modernist) mode of thinking to reveal that

01:39:09

Left and Right with Society in the Balance | James...

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2025/11/05

Saving American Liberty, Session 3What are "Left" and "Right," politically? Where does political extremism come from, on both sides? These are crucially important questions in our present era of extreme polarization that only seems to be increasing past any sense of a possible limit. To address these questions in a deep and fresh way, from August 22-23, 2025, in Dallas, Texas, New Discourses was proud to host a learning seminar event called Saving American Liberty, featuring talks from New

01:14:18

Am Yisrael Chai

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2025/11/03

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 183The people of Israel live. Am Yisrael Chai. In this moving episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay talks about his recent (first ever) trip to Israel and what he learned most. Join him for a powerful story. Billboard Chris's video at the Nova Festival site: https://x.com/BillboardChris/status/1983864149810803074 Latest from New Discourses Press! The Queering of the American Child: https://queeringbook.com/ Support New

00:39:25

The Big Picture | Michael O'Fallon

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2025/10/31

Saving American Liberty, Session 2In this powerful session from the New Discourses event Saving American Liberty, Michael O’Fallon (https://x.com/SovMichael), founder of Sovereign Nations, unpacks the sweeping transformation that has been underway across every major pillar of society—education, faith, media, corporations, and government. He explains how each has been deliberately destabilized to usher in what global elites call the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” Latest from New Discourses

00:16:38

The Difference Between Left and Right

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2025/10/22

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 132There are several differences between the Left and the Right on ideological, philosophical, and political grounds, but in plain practical terms, there's another obvious difference. The Left has radicalized in a way conservatives have not, and in proportions that conservatives have not. Why is that? The answer is that the Left has succumbed to the blinding temptation for power far more than the rest of us have, and it has driven them mad. The thing is, while

01:47:11

The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 8: Carl Schmitt's Politics...

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2025/10/20

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 182What was the underlying structure of politics in the Third Reich, and what bearing did this view of politics have on the unfolding Nazi Experiment? In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay continues this sprawling series on Nazism, showing not just that it was a disaster but also why it was a disaster. In this episode, he presents the politics of Carl Schmitt, which informed and meshed with the Nazi totalitarian program

00:23:18

The Three Pillars of Civilization

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2025/10/17

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 131What is civilization? What is it based on? In the biggest picture, there are three fundamental pillars to civilization: truth, justice, and love. (You'll notice how Biblical this is.) Truth allows us to make real, meaningful strides, and reality will punish us if we fail to keep to it. Justice is necessary to keep people functioning together and working for their society and the American Dream. But these must also be pursued with an orientation toward love, not

01:39:17

The Raging Birth of the Queer Militancy Movement

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2025/10/15

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 181 Due to the circumstances of the vile murder of Charlie Kirk, not to mention so many other acts of violence in the last few years coming from Queer Activists, we need to understand the Queer Militancy movement. This movement was inaugurated, by most accounts, with a Pride Day (how times have changed!) pamphlet written by an angry (sociognostic) lesbian and distributed in June of 1990. It is, in fact, therefore, a cornerstone not just of the

00:16:14

We Must Win By the Book

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2025/10/13

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 130 The hard part of building and protecting civilization is that we have to do it while maintaining the values and principles of civilization. That means while the enemies of civilization can run amok and break rules, norms, policies, laws, and expectations, we cannot. We have to do everything by the book. It's not just that we need to on a matter of principle, though. We also must as a matter of strategy. In a two-tiered system like the Woke Left has set up for itself,

02:37:31

The Communist Manifesto, Volume 2: The Principles of...

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2025/10/06

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 180After a long wait, we return to finish our exploration (https://newdiscourses.com/2025/07/the-communist-manifesto-volume-one/) of The Communist Manifesto (pdf: https://newdiscourses.com/2025/07/the-communist-manifesto-volume-one/) here on the New Discourses Podcast. In this episode, host James Lindsay takes you through the last chapter of the Manifesto itself and then continues to "The Principles of Communism," which Friedrich Engels wrote,

01:32:42

Sociognosticism and the Black Magic of Aleksandr Dugin

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2025/10/03

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 179As we recently explored, the Russian national socialist Aleksandr Dugin (https://newdiscourses.com/2025/09/the-russian-national-socialism-of-aleksandr-dugin/) is weird. Said to be Vladimir Putin's "brain," an unlikely claim, he has been publishing extremist and fascist philosophy for decades, much of which has been leaking into American right-wing (Woke Right) thought rather substantially in recent years. In this episode of the New Discourses

00:17:44

Real Communism Can Never Be Tried

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2025/10/01

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 129 We've all heard it before: "real Communism has never been tried!" Yeah, yeah. Well, here's the thing. "Real Communism" can never be tried, so this old canard isn't saying anything interesting at all. The reason is that "real Communism" is the utopian end state of Communism as an eschatological (end-times) religion. It never actually arrives. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay breaks this simple fact down and reveals the same exact thing is

00:53:02

The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 7: The Nazi Rejection of...

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2025/09/29

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 178Characterizing what happened in Germany between the end of World War I and the end of World War II as the "Nazi Experiment" allows us to take a close look at what the Nazis did in the apparent attempt to solve some serious societal problems. Of course, the Nazi State had its conception of citizenship, as would any state, but rather than breaking down its population into "citizens" and "aliens," Hitler wanted there to be three statuses: German

00:18:24

What Freedom of Speech Is and Isn't

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2025/09/26

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 128Freedom of speech is a concept a lot of people appreciate but also struggle with. It can be challenging for people to distinguish between threats to their freedom of speech, cancellation, censorship, and, on the other hand, more speech being the answer to speech. Drawing from one of his oldest popular writings (https://newdiscourses.com/2020/01/freedom-of-speech-fallacy-demanding-heard/), host James Lindsay addresses the issue of freedom of speech in principle in

00:36:28

For Charlie Kirk

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2025/09/24

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 177In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay remembers his great friend Charlie Kirk. Latest from New Discourses Press! The Queering of the American Child: https://queeringbook.com/ Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames Cropped and generatively expanded image via Gage

00:11:47

Is Woke Real, or Is It a Psyop?

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2025/09/22

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 127One of the more difficult experiences we all face today is how hard it is to tell when something blows up on the internet whether it's "real" or a "psyop" (part of an active measure with a political warfare purpose). Well, the answer is typically "yes" between these two choices. That is, it's frequently both. Using a process that would best be called "reflexive becoming," a psyops can be turned into a flashpoint issue in the culture war, a movement, or even an

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