A.J.A. Woods, Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West, Verso, 2026 The definitive history of a dangerous right-wing conspiracy theory “Cultural Marxism” is one of the far right’s favorite buzzwords. But despite its currency, the meaning and origins of the term are rarely investigated. This book uncovers the bizarre …
Critical Theory Working Group, Wokeness Must be Defended. Podcast on Patreon, 4 April 2026 JE, Cam and Re interrogate Foucault’s mid 1970s lectures at the Collège de France, Society Must be Defended. They discuss Foucault’s method, his genealogy from Race Wars to Racism and modern conspiratorial thinking among other things.
Editor: The latest round in the iterative saga of critiques of “woke” and North American culture wars. It started with a post on X by Brivael Le Pogam on 15 May 2026 which has of the current date attracted 55.5 million views (by no doubt a mixture of humans and bots) and 4.1k replies. The …
Tom Nicholas, Postmodernism is dead. This is Who Killed It. Apr 25, 2025 Written, directed, and presented by Tom Nicholas. Filmed and edited by Georgia Burrows. Remember postmodernism? Just under a decade ago, the term “postmodernism” seemed to be everywhere. To slightly nerdier commentators on the political right (including Jordan Peterson, James Lindsay, Gad Saad, …
The West’s leading pseudo-intellectual by Ammar Ahmad The Michigan Daily, November 30, 2022 Jordan Peterson is a popular Canadian personality psychologist who has made quite a name for himself by preaching against the use of pronouns, arguing that they violate freedom of speech. In a CBC interview, he uses his spotlight moment to say “I …
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