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A look at how a worldview called negative idealism links movements that reject reality to escalating coercion and violence. Discussion of psychological pathways behind male-to-female transitions and how online forums and hormones can reinforce self-delusion. Comparison of the same logic in communism, fascism, and varied critical theories. Exploration of how frustration and scapegoating can progress toward aggression.

A stroll through three competing ways people answer "Who are we?" and how those identities shape politics. Discussion contrasts tradition, discovery, and self-definition as political forces. Examines how each stance can turn healthy or become authoritarian. Ends with practical prompts for balancing tradition, experimentation, and evidence.

A tight look at Carl Schmitt's friend versus enemy framework and how that binary reshapes political life. Discussions cover how declaring enemies enforces conformity and fuels purges. Modern parallels are drawn to COVID, woke conflicts, and Trump-era polarization. The conversation warns about radicalization, tribalism, and ways to refuse that corrosive logic.

A second trip through Israel reveals visits to kibbutzim near Gaza, damaged towns, and everyday resilience. Conversations explore how Jewish values shape communal duty, law, and memory. Stops include yeshiva debates, ancient sites like Shiloh and Masada, lively markets, and the quiet anchor of Shabbat dinners.

A discussion of Michael Malice's idea that people think through an us-versus-them filter rather than true or false. Exploration of how tribalism shapes politics, media, education, and social media. Contrast between fast intuitive tribal thinking and slow, disciplined truth-seeking tied to Enlightenment values. A call to train ourselves to prefer truth over tribal loyalty.

A reading and critique of a manifesto linking transgender arguments to a transhuman future. Discussions cover AI mindfiles, software-preserved identity, and the promise of uploading consciousness. Legal and ethical questions about personhood, voting rights, and digital citizens are raised. The show surveys transhumanism’s intellectual roots and warns about risks of augmentation and identity replication.

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 Palestine" confusing. How can people with such different views and goals work together? Obviously, part of the answer is the simple one: they have a common enemy to defeat and can work out their differences after they solve that problem. Nevertheless, the answer to this question, at least from the Communist side, is written explicitly as a command on the last page of the Communist Manifesto. Communists will always take the side of any movement against the existing order of things, simple as that. Host James Lindsay explains this to you in this important episode of New Discourses Bullets. You don't want to miss it. 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 © 2026 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #Communist

A casual exploration of what makes things valuable and why traditional answers fall short. A new idea is proposed: value as the capacity to solve problems for people. Discussions range from wealth as problem-solving power to status goods, national prosperity, and practical career advice about earning by fixing others' problems.

They unpack what 'lived experience' really means and trace its roots to Freire and the Maoist mass line. They explain how interpretive overlays turn private events into political grievances. They show examples like microaggressions and warn that similar patterns are rising on the right. They offer ways to spot and resist radicalizing interpretation frames.

A deep dive into Sayyid Qutb's Milestones and its Leninist roots. Exploration of Jahiliyyah as a form of false consciousness analogous to Marxist theory. Discussion of the first Muslim generation, the Quran as a pure source, and praxis of reading, memorizing, and acting. Examination of Sharia as a total system and parallels between Islamism and Leninist totalitarianism.