The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 9: The Centrality of the Jewish Question

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🗓️ 14 November 2025

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 184 At the center of the Nazi Experiment is the Jewish Question, undeniably. The Jewish Question amounts to asking "what should we do with the Jews?" in this case, in Europe. Across the entirety of his project, Adolf Hitler had a straightforward answer, though the specifics differed: get rid of them, all of them. In fact, he proudly campaigned for himself on the project of "solving the Jewish Question," not just on matters of German national pride or the economy, as is sometimes wrongly reported. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, the ninth volume in the deep Nazi Experiment series, host James Lindsay takes you through Hitler's infamous 1939 speech to the Reichstag as well as a lesser-known letter Hitler wrote in 1919, showing remarkable consistency in Hitler's vision for the Jews over the entirety of the Nazi Experiment. Join him to see, yet again, the ominous parallels to our own time today. 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 © 2025 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #Nazi

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. It's James Lindsay and you are listening to the New Discourses podcast
0:24.4	and we are continuing this sprawling, exciting, apparently very impactful and helpful series
0:31.9	I'm doing called The Nazi Experiment.
0:34.5	This is volume 9, which is really the 10th episode in the series that I've recorded.
0:41.5	And what we're doing is going through various writings, mostly Minkv, from the Nazis, but also some stuff from Carl Schmidt so far, to explain something I'm calling the Nazi experiment, which I'm obviously using as a phrasing
0:55.9	that's in parallel to the American experiment. Of course, the American experiment has been the
1:01.2	most successful and prosperous experiment in human governance in history. What is it based on?
1:07.9	It's based on individual responsibility and self-government. The idea,
1:13.1	the radical idea in the world that human beings can govern themselves and don't need a government
1:19.3	to tell them how to be, how to produce, how to exchange, etc. But in particular, how to believe
1:26.7	and orient their beliefs, or how to submit to beliefs of others.
1:33.2	And so that's the American experiment. What have the results been? tremendous prosperity, poverty
1:39.2	reduced all around the world, the adoption of freedom in so many places, raised standards of living
1:47.3	like you wouldn't believe, just a total transformation of the world in the beneficial
1:53.8	direction.
1:55.4	And it is what the founders, what we called originally as Americans, the blessings of liberty
2:00.7	that we get by being
2:02.3	in covenant with liberty itself. So we hold up our end, which is to be personally responsible and to
2:10.1	govern ourselves, which requires character development, which requires virtue, which requires
2:15.9	some ambition, and the desire to do something
2:19.6	productive to solve problems in the world for self and others. And as a result, we end up with
2:26.3	this wonderful, prosperous society. We gain the blessings of liberty, which have been proved
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