James Lindsey: Exposing the Insanity of Modern Academia

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🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Is the West in decline? Dr. James Lindsay is the author of books like Cynical Theories, The Marxification of Education, and most recently, The Queering of the American Child. He joins Socrates in the City host, Eric Metaxas to discuss his experiences in uncovering the hypocrisy of academic journals and the critical theory, cultural and academic marxism, and other hidden agendas these publications endorse. They explore how these trends are impacting academia in the West and beyond.

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0:00.0	Hey the folks, welcome to Socrates in the studio, which is under the aegis or rubric, if you will, of Socrates in the city.
0:10.0	The city in this case being London, England.
0:13.9	We are, for this season of Socrates in the studio, talking about the larger question,
0:20.9	what is the future of the West?
0:25.6	Today, with my guest, Dr. James Lindsay,
0:30.0	we may ask the question, or we may be talking about
0:33.7	whether the West is in decline in any event. Who some of you are asking is Dr. James Lindsay.
0:41.7	Let me tell you, Dr. James Lindsay is the best-selling author of many books, among them,
0:49.5	cynical theories, the Marxification of education, and most recent, the queering of the American child.
1:02.3	He holds a PhD in mathematics, yes, from the University of Tennessee.
1:10.4	Dr. James Lindsay, welcome to Socrates in the City.
1:13.3	I'm excited to be here.
1:14.8	I am excited to talk to you about all of this stuff.
1:17.6	Let me start by asking you to tell the story of how you came into the popular consciousness not many years ago by writing those papers,
1:32.1	those academic papers. I love this story. So start with that. Yeah, well, I think a lot of people
1:38.8	will have noticed that academia is a bit off the rails. Insane is a closer term. I'm sure we can come up with an even more
1:48.0	fitting adjective for how crazy they've become. Well, some friends of mine, Peter Bogotian and a woman
1:53.7	Helen Pluckrose, who joined in later, Peter and I initially noticed that the leftist academia was a bit nuts,
2:02.9	maybe by as early as 2013 or 2014.
2:06.6	I mean, actually, it was way before that.
2:08.8	Sure, but we...
2:09.9	And when you say nuts, let's be clear.
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