In October 2019, James Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, Helen Pluckrose, and filmmaker Mike Nayna gathered in London for a panel moderated by Michael O’Fallon to reflect on the infamous "Grievance Studies" project (https://grievanceproject.com/), often called "Sokal Squared." This provocative project involved writing and submitting intentionally absurd papers filled with ideological jargon to academic journals. Their aim was to demonstrate how deeply critical social justice ideologies had compromised academic rigor, making it possible for nonsensical submissions to be accepted as legitimate scholarship.

During the panel, Lindsay traced the project’s origins to a simple yet unsettling question about whether fields like gender studies had become akin to a secular dogma. This led to a series of papers, including the now-notorious "dog park" paper, which absurdly linked canine behavior to human rape culture. Mike Nayna, who documented the process, admitted his initial skepticism but explained how his own research into these academic fields revealed the seriousness of the problem.

The panel highlighted the broader societal implications of their work. Lindsay and his co-authors warned that when ideology replaces the pursuit of truth, it threatens not only the integrity of scholarship but the foundations of public discourse itself. For them, the "Grievance Studies" project was a stark reminder of the dangers of allowing political agendas to override intellectual honesty and critical thinking.

Viewers will find this look back five years in time interesting and informative not just in the content as presented but also in how the panelists' insights have developed and matured over the intervening years.

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Panel: Grievance Studies | Boghossian, Lindsay, Nayna, O'Fallon, Pluckrose

In the 49th episode we talk to Howie Hawkins, a former Teamsters trade union activist, one of the leaders of the Green movement in the USA and former canidate for numerous public offices representing the Green Party of the United States. Howie visited Poland as part of his European tour devoted primarily to strenghtening the international solidarity with Ukraine which he supports from the ecosocialist perspective. We talk about the intersection of the Red and the Green in the context of a global surge of the far-right, Trump's victory, Russian imperialism and Ukrainian resistance as well as Murray Bookichin who once inspired Abdullah Ocalan and the Kurdish movement and whose social-ecologist ideas inspired Howie's succesful efforts to push the American Greens towards a socialist programme. Please visit Howie's website which is full of interesting resources and dispatches from his European tour: https://howiehawkins.us/

In conversation with Howie Hawkins - Ukraine, American Left, history and future

In her talk, Doing Social Justice Responsibly on October 13, 2019 at the 'Speaking Truth to Social Justice' conference in London, Helen Pluckrose tackled the ideological excesses within social justice activism, offering a way to address genuine social justice issues without abandoning reason or liberal principles. She argued that the dominant framework in social justice today—rooted in critical theory and postmodernism—has transformed genuine concerns about power and privilege into a rigid worldview. This ideology, she explained, rejects objective truth and promotes “strategic knowledge,” constructed to serve specific identity-based agendas rather than being tested against reality.

Pluckrose acknowledged that while social justice concepts like bias, cultural narratives, and the power of language have validity, the radicalized methods often used within social justice turn productive critiques into dogma. Instead of engaging in open dialogue, activists demand conformity, condemning dissenting views as tools of privilege. She urged liberals and conservatives alike to stand for a balanced approach to social justice—one that promotes fairness without sacrificing truth and the ideals of secular liberalism.

Viewers will find this talk interesting not just for its contents but also for the glimpse back in time by five years, which allows them to see how the views expressed have matured and developed over the intervening time.

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Doing Social Justice Responsibly | Helen Pluckrose

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 109

There are many ways we could conceive of Leftism, and one of the best is that it is a covetous relationship with power. It's easy to understand how toxic and bad that is, if not evil. Yet here we are at a crossroads in world history, and we're being led toward precisely that pit. There's a popular line out there now that goes something like this: "the Left wants power, and conservatives don't. That's why conservatives always lose." The implication is that conservatives should also desire (or covet) power. This line adopts the Left's relationship to power and fails to articulate the healthier relationship to power embraced by conservatives: that of faithful service to others, which conservatives often gladly shoulder. In this important episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay covers this line and a healthier way to move forward into the responsibility we have to shoulder. Join him for the discussion, then chew on it.

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Leftism Means Coveting Power

What is the "Left"? What does that term mean and does it matter in our current political landscape?

Study Session Ep. 14 - To The Left Left 2025-03-19

LOOK AT ME
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We rock!  Wayyyyy too early in the morning - but we had a blast!  Join us for the morning show - where we make fun of separatists in Alberta, Conservatives, Trump... and all kinds of fun stuff.  It's revolutionary radio the way it was meant to be - it's CFTG!  Join us!

Separatists and Orange Clowns

Tracklist :
Alicante - Hugel 
Come Into My World - Kylie Minogue
If You Wanna - Leftwing : Kody 
Cry Just A Little - Bingo Players 
Rosegold - Entro Senestre 
Alive (feat. The Moth & The Flame) [KREAM Remix] - Kx5 (Kaskade & Deadmau5) 
At Night - Richard Grey 
All The Way - Belac 
New Lands - Justice

Doctor's Orders #5

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 117

The MAGA Civil War is upon us, as many people have noticed. But what is it? Where did it come from? What are the sides, and who is right? In a recent long essay (https://newdiscourses.com/2025/05/the-woke-rights-elitist-coup-inside-the-maga-civil-war/) and New Discourses Podcast episode, James Lindsay outlined the origins and nature of the MAGA Civil War in unprecedented detail, but it is unfortunately very long. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, he summarizes the biggest takeaways from that longer presentation in a quickly digestible form. Join him to get the skinny on this crucial issue.

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Exposing the MAGA Civil War

HouseArrest | Volume 130
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HouseArrest | Volume 130

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HouseArrest | Volume 132
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HouseArrest | Volume 132

SUMMER 2025 AFRO HOUSE / HOUSE MIX (With Black Coffee, Calvin Harris,Jorja Smith, Quasar...)

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 177

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay remembers his great friend Charlie Kirk.

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For Charlie Kirk

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 179

As 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 Podcast, host James Lindsay reads from a short, creepy essay Dugin wrote for the Russian National Bolshevik magazine in 1995, titled "The Gnostic," (https://eurasianist-archive.com/2019/03/09/the-gnostic/) in which he makes the explicit case for following "left-hand path" (black, or Satanic) magic. In fact, he links this "magic" to Communism and Fascism and more. In this episode, Lindsay reads Dugin's bizarre essay and explains his concept of sociognosticism that makes sense of it. Join him to learn about this darkness threatening MAGA and American conservatism.

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Sociognosticism and the Black Magic of Aleksandr Dugin

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 132

There 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 radicalism and political violence are not (at present) "both sides" problems, temptation is a both-sides problem. The friend-enemy distinction as a criterion of politics tempts us too, and we must continue to choose to reject it, or we will lose this most important distinction between Left and Right. Join host James Lindsay for this episode of New Discourses Bullets wherein he discusses this important matter.

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The Difference Between Left and Right

THE WOKE LEFT HAS MANDATED I STOP BRAPPING IN PUBLIC PLACES AND TAKE PELVIC FLOOR EXERCISES! THEY CANNOT STOP ME!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

覚醒左翼WOKE LEFT

Saving American Liberty, Session 3

What 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 Discourses founder James Lindsay and the founder of Sovereign Nations and New Discourses partner, Michael O'Fallon.

In this third talk of the seminar, Lindsay puts some foundation under the confusing terms "Left" and "Right," which have strayed quite a bit from their origins in the French Revolution. He then explains a second dimension of political orientation as being located in metaphysical realism versus idealism. Using the metaphor of a pair of scales, or a balance, he makes a case for a healthy politics, Left and Right, as compared to pathological, extremist politics, Left and Right, that seek to destroy everything from their idealist mania. Join him to gain depth and clarity on this important subject.

The other lectures in this series can be found here:
Session 1: https://youtu.be/4u2ak-DmKD4
Session 2: https://youtu.be/gUiLUmZWsc4

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Left and Right with Society in the Balance | James Lindsay

Loopz podcast episode 087 // Ga-l

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Christian Prommer – Marimba (Jon Charnis remix) @christianprommer @joncharnis 
Martin Roth – Mel (Whomi Remix) @djmartinroth @whomi
Skyboy & Andrea Di Rocco – A Space Walk With Ennio (Christian Prommer remix) @skyboy @andreadirocco @christianprommer
Aidan Lavelle & Robbie Akbal – Stars (Andre Hommen Remix) @aidanlavelle @robbie_akbal @andrehommen
Joyce Muniz – Sleepless (Wehbba Remix) @joytoy @wehbba
Röyksopp – Sordid Affair (Maceo Plex Remix) @royksopp @maceoplex
Leftwing & Kody – Tell Me @leftwingaudio
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Gus Gus – Crossfade (Maceo Plex remix) @gusgus @maceoplex
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Published : 02 January 2015

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Loopz 087

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Pursuing the light of objective truth in subjective darkness.

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Loopz is an electronic music podcast created in 2006. Musical background changes throught the years, from underground house, disco, nu-disco, deep-house to downtempo and ethnic spiritual sounds lately. Enjoy !

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