New Discourses Podcast
1) The Poison of Negative Idealism
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 146 The essence of a critical theory is a philosophical stance we can and should call "negative idealism," and this negative idealism explains why "critical" movements lik...Show More
2) Who Are We, and What Does That Mean About Politics?
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 195 When we face the question of what makes us who we are, different people have different answers. Some see ourselves as receptacles of tradition. ...Show More
3) New Discourses Bullets 145 - How the Friend-Enemy Distinction Poisons Politics
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 145 Carl Schmitt captured the essence of totalitarian politics in his book The Concept of the Political (1932) (https://amzn.to/4sf2Rpk). It is the distinction between fri...Show More
4) What Jewish Values Can Teach Us About Being American: Another Trip to Israel
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 194 James Lindsay's second trip to Israel was very different from his first (https://newdiscourses.com/2025/11/am-yisrael-chai/). On this trip, he g...Show More
5) True and False or Us Versus Them?
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 144 The ever-insightful Michael Malice once explained, "most people do not process information through a true/false filter but through an us/them filter." There are pretty...Show More
6) From Transgender to Transhuman
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 193 As we encounter both the material in the infamous Epstein Files and revelations from some of Epstein's associates, not to mention the advances i...Show More
7) Why Communists Do the Red-Green Alliance
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 143 As normal people who value ideological and logical consistency, we tend to find movements like the Red-Green Alliance (Communists and Islamists) and "Queers for Palest...Show More
8) Introducing the Problem-Solving Theory of Value
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 192 What makes something valuable? How do we determine value? One hypothesis on value is famously forwarded and relied upon by the Marxists. It is c...Show More
9) Woke Interpretation and Lived Experience
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 142 What in the world do the Woke mean by "lived experience"? (https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-lived-experience/) As has been discussed here before (https://newdiscourses.c...Show More
10) Milestones, Vol. 2: Jahiliyyah, the False Consciousness of Islamism
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 191 Central to the idea of Marxist thought, although Marx himself rarely used the term, is the idea of "false consciousness." People, it is alleged,...Show More