James Lindsay

Encroaching Darkness series: With James Lindsay and Stephen Hicks

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My paired conversations in the Encroaching Darkness series, “The Seeds of Collectivism” and “Encroaching Darkness.” Hosted by Michael O’Fallon and featuring James Lindsay and me in conversation. Description: When you listen to the moral language and rhetoric of our culture today, you less often hear appeals to “personal responsibility” and “rugged individualism” — and more […]

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Is Rousseau now more important than Marx? (With O’Fallon and Lindsay)

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James Lindsay and I focus on the influential Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose anti-Enlightenment ideology is very much in fashion again after the disasters of Marxist socialism in the 20th century. Bad ideas don’t go away after failure — they get repackaged and re-introduced in other guises. Discussion hosted by Michael O’Fallon. From the description: When you

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“Stephen Hicks: The Leftist Racism Industry”

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With interspersed video excerpts from KImberlé Crenshaw, Robin DiAngelo, and Grievance Studies hoaxters Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay, and Peter Boghossian — interviewer Mike Nayna asks me about Critical Theory — what was imported from Freud, the Frankfurt School, the subversion of cognitive theory, and how was it applied to CRT. 11-minute excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbeCQis1kh7fEaOGPhG96SA Full interview

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The Conceptual Penis — further developments

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* The original hoax article, “The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct,” was published by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay in the academic journal Cogent Social Sciences. * Simultaneously they published this lambasting commentary. * Salon‘s Phil Torris deflated the hoax’s significance in a scathing piece. * Professor James Taylor agreed, arguing that the hoax

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