Lindsay is the founder of the website New Discourses,which is owned by conservative commentator Michael O'Fallon.[19][20][10][21] Lindsay's video series is also hosted by Sovereign Nations,O'Fallon's Christian nationalist website.[10] According to theologian and author David W. Congdon,"framing the left as an alternative religion has made Lindsay popular among the Christian Right".[22]
In 2017,Lindsay and Boghossian published a hoax paper titled "The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct".[26] In writing the paper,Lindsay and Boghossian intended to imitate the style of "poststructuralist discursive gender theory". The paper argued that the penis should be seen "not as an anatomical organ but as a social construct isomorphic to performativetoxic masculinity".[26][27] After the paper was rejected by Norma, they later submitted it to Cogent Social Sciences where it was accepted for publication.[26][28][29][30]
Beginning in August 2017,Lindsay,Boghossian,and Pluckrose wrote 20 hoax papers,which they submitted to peer-reviewed journals using several pseudonyms as well as the name of Richard Baldwin,a friend of Boghossian and professor emeritus of history at Florida's Gulf Coast State College. The project ended early after one of the papers,published in the feminist geography journal Gender,Place &Culture,was questioned by investigative journalist Toni Airaksinen of Campus Reform who suspected the article was not real due to its lack of adherence to academic journal publishing standards. This resulted in widespread interest in the incident,which was written about by several journalists.[31]
The trio subsequently revealed the full scope of their work in a YouTube video created and released by documentary filmmaker Mike Nayna,which was accompanied by an investigation by The Wall Street Journal.[32] By the time of this revelation,seven of their twenty papers had been accepted,seven were still under review,and six had been rejected. One paper,accepted by feminist social work journal Affilia,contained passages copied from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf with feminist language added,[26] though sociologist Mikko Lagerspetz[fi] has contended that the paper only contained similarities in structure,and did not contain material "historically specific in Hitler's text (racism,references to the First World War,and so on)".[33]
Academic reviewers had praised the hoax studies of Lindsay,Boghossian,and Pluckrose as "a rich and exciting contribution to the study of... the intersection between masculinity and anality","excellent and very timely",and "important dialogue for social workers and feminist scholars".[34]
Views
Prior to 2020,Lindsay supported Democratic Party candidates,including volunteering for Barack Obama,and was part of the New Atheism movement.[35] In 2023,Lindsay published an article on New Discourses in which he set out to defend the philosophical basis of classical liberalism,which he summarized as "the project of organizing our society from a position of political equality with certain rights that are inalienable,among these life,liberty,property,capacity for their use toward our happiness and purposes,and a reasonable expectation of privacy in which we can maintain their sanctity".[36]
Lindsay has promoted several prominent conspiracy theories.[4][7]
He is a proponent of the right-wing LGBT grooming conspiracy theory and has been credited as one of several public figures responsible for popularizing "groomer" as a slur directed at LGBTQ educators and activists by members of the political right.[25][41][42] Lindsay has referred to the Pride flag as "the flag of a hostile enemy."[5][24]
In 2021, Lindsay wrote on Twitter that "there will be" a genocide of whites if critical race theory "isn't stopped."[43] His statement was met with widespread criticism, including from founder of libertarian anti-identity politics magazine QuilletteClaire Lehmann who wrote: "James Lindsay is now peddling White Genocide Theory. Implying that a genocide against whites in the U.S. is imminent has the potential to inspire racist violence. Such comments are extreme, reckless, and irresponsible. They should be denounced."[43][44]
Counter Wokecraft (with Charles Pincourt; ISBN979-8-5368-1503-8). Independently published. 2021.
Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis ( ISBN979-8-7958-0908-3). Independently published. 2022.
The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids (with Logan Lancing) ( ISBN979-8-9897-4169-4). New Discourses. 2024.
1 2 Conway, Philip R. (June 1, 2021). "Critical international politics at an impasse: reflexivist, reformist, reactionary, and restitutive post-critique". International Politics Reviews. 9 (1): 213–238. doi:10.1057/s41312-021-00111-3. ISSN2050-2990. S2CID256552762. [Lindsay] has also taken to promoting the conspiracy theory that global elites are enacting a vast, diabolical "plan" to reduce "world population to under 2B[illion], perhaps by the end of the decade" (2021a) – a task to which the insidious grievance-mongering of critical academics is apparently essential. Only one 'Enlightenment'-loving conspiracist among many others, these views are propounded from the bully's pulpit of a 201,000-follower Twitter account (at the time of writing).
1 2 3 4 Schuessler, Jennifer (October 4, 2018). "Hoaxers Slip Breastaurants and Dog-Park Sex Into Journals". The New York Times. Retrieved October 8, 2018. …a third paper, published in a journal of feminist social work and titled 'Our Struggle Is My Struggle,' simply scattered some up-to-date jargon into passages lifted from Hitler's 'Mein Kampf…' They set out to write 20 papers that started with 'politically fashionable conclusions,' which they worked backward to support by aping the relevant fields' methods and arguments, and sometimes inventing data.
1 2 Woodruff, Chase (June 12, 2021). "Ousted Space Force commander defended by Rep. Lamborn advanced white 'genocide' theory in book". Colorado Newsline. Retrieved October 31, 2022. James Lindsay, a well-known right-wing academic whose work Lohmeier cites in his book, faced criticism from many of his fellow conservatives last week after writing on Twitter that "there will be" a genocide of whites "if this ideology isn't stopped." Earlier this month, Lindsay was a featured panelist at the annual retreat of the Leadership Program of the Rockies, a conservative networking organization, at The Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs. "James Lindsay is now peddling White Genocide Theory," Claire Lehmann, founder of the right-leaning website Quillette, wrote on Twitter on June 9. "Implying that a genocide against whites in the U.S. is imminent has the potential to inspire racist violence. Such comments are extreme, reckless, and irresponsible. They should be denounced."
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