The Intellectual Roots of Wokeness with James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian (Ep.15)

Conversations with Coleman

The Free Press

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.5 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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For exclusive member-only content become a CwC subscriber via https://colemanhughes.org/ In this episode, Coleman interviews James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian. James is a mathematician, writer, and founder of New Discourses. He is the author of a new book called ‘Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity’. Peter is a philosopher, a professor at Portland State University, an author of ‘A Manual for Creating Atheists’ and ‘How to Have Impossible Conversations’. During this episode, they talk about critical theory, postmodernism, critical race theory, and how these conspired to build the foundation of social justice ideology as we know it today. They talk about the ways in which social justice has departed from its parent ideologies, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:03.9	Okay, today my guests are James Lindsay and Peter Bogosian.
2:08.8	James Lindsay is a mathematician, writer, and founder of new discourses, and the author of a new
2:14.7	book called Cynical Theories, How Activists Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity.
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